Past Member
Will Hanley
Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Legal History, Digital History
Website
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“Names as Ontology” investigates rules governing how personal names and identifiers were employed in serial historical records of the modern Middle East. Using the semantic data model and pooling datasets, Will Hanley seeks to discover categories of identification encoded in the words that scribes and bureaucrats used to describe individuals.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
2007