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Portrait of Dr. Maya Ellison

Researchers · joined 2020

Dr. Maya Ellison

Research Scientist

Comparative scripts, archival discontinuity, and long-duration cultural records.

STATUSACTIVELOCATIONWyman Hall

PROFILE

Dr. Maya Ellison is a research scientist at Wyman Laboratory. Their work centers on comparative scripts, archival discontinuity, and long-duration cultural records. They support interdisciplinary research across the laboratory's measurement, computation, and field programs.

RESEARCH / RESPONSIBILITIES

  • language systems
  • memory and cognition
  • cultural transmission
  • comparative scripts, archival discontinuity, and long-duration cultural records

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Linguistics — University of Pennsylvania

M.A., Archival Studies — Simmons University

CURRENT PROJECTS

WCH-18B Archive 18BWCH-327 Comparative Script SystemsWCH-351 Pituffik Inscription Corpus

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

WCH-301 Narrative Coherence and Error Correction in Human CommunicationWCH-327 Featural Script Systems and Articulatory Geometry: A Comparative SurveyWCH-361 Recurrent Structure in an Unclassified Inscription Corpus from Northwest Greenland

CONTACT

maya.ellison@wymanlabs.org

Wyman Hall 345
Wyman Laboratory

FALL 2026 / TEACHING & SEMINARS

2026-11-19Recurrent Structure in Unclassified ScriptsWyman Hall 108

RECENT ACTIVITY

From the Wyman record.

2026-09-28Marlowe Foundation adds support for comparative epigraphyFunding2026-09-26Pituffik inscription corpus enters comparative analysisResearch2026-09-23Four fall research outputs added to public indexPublications2026-09-19October methods colloquium schedule postedEvents