Joseph O'Hara

Joseph O'Hara is Junior Research Fellow in Hebrew palaeography at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Joseph O'Hara

Joseph O'Hara holds a BA (MA) in Hebrew with Aramaic and Syriac from the University of Oxford. In 2014 he was awarded a doctoral studentship from the AHRC-funded project The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (PI: Michael Macdonald), also at the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis examined the phonology and morphology of the Rweyli dialect of Arabic, for which he also produced a dictionary.

He joined the HebrewPal team while working as a junior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford on the AHRC/DFG-funded project The History of the Jewish Book in the Islamicate World (PIs: Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt). From 2023, he worked on HebrewPal as part of a Fellowship from Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc), and he joined the ERC-Synergy project MiDRASH in 2024. He has presented on the project at international conferences and uses the platform to teach digital palaeography both in Oxford and online.

He is also a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, a research associate of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and a tutor in phonetics and phonology at the University of Oxford. He has previously been a research assistant at the universities of Oxford and Sheffield, working on projects in Rabbinic literature and in phonetics, and a supervisor in phonetics, phonology, and morphology at the University of Cambridge.

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