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Chiara Palladino is an Associate Professor of Classics at Furman University and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies. Her work focuses on digital and computational methods applied to classical philology, geospatial modeling, and the ethical implications of digital cultural heritage. She leads projects such as the Ugarit Translation Alignment Editor and the Digital Tolkien Project, collaborating with institutions like the Pelagios Network and the Perseus Digital Library.
Education: PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), with postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Leipzig (Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities) and the University of Cologne (Institute of Digital Humanities). Her research integrates computational tools with classical studies, including named entity recognition for ancient Greek and GIS modeling of ancient travel narratives.
Research Interests: Digital humanities methodologies, geospatial analysis of ancient texts, translation alignment systems for historical languages, and ethical dimensions of digital representation in cultural heritage. She has pioneered projects like the Digital Tolkien Project and the Agathemerus Sketch of Geography digital edition, leveraging AI and machine learning for philological analysis.
Grants & Awards: Recipient of the LECTIO Fellowship (2024), Mellon Foundation grants (2018–2020), and DAAD scholarships. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, with recent focus on AI-driven sentiment analysis of ancient texts and inclusive placemaking studies.
Labs/Teams: Co-lead of the Ugarit Translation Alignment project and the Mellon-funded Annotation Interoperability Framework. Active in digital classics consortia like the Sunoikisis Digital Classics Consortium and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
