Joseph O'Hara

Joseph O'Hara is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the 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). Since 2023 he has been working on HebrewPal as part of a Fellowship from Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc). 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 at Corpus Christi College, 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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