Estara Arrant

Dr Estara Arrant is a Cambridge University Library Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and Trinity Hall Postdoctoral Research Associate. She merges Semitic linguistics with data science to study medieval Jewish and Islamic textual cultures.

• PhD (University of Cambridge, 2021): Computational analysis of Cairo Genizah Torah codices
• MPhil (University of Oxford, 2018): Linguistic structure of Qur’ānic creation narratives
• BA: History & Modern Hebrew

Her groundbreaking work combines machine learning and bioinformatics algorithms to analyze textual evolution. Current projects include:

• Developing the first NLP model for medieval Judaeo-Arabic
• Creating digital tools for computerized stemmatology

She actively teaches Python and R as an Cambridge Digital Humanities associate, and her research has been published by Open Book Publishers and Brill.