Adam Bremer-McCollum

Adam Bremer-McCollum completed his PhD in 2009 at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Cincinnati), where he studied Semitic languages and Greek and Latin. His academic research experience includes five years as a cataloger of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library) and time on a research project at the University of Vienna on Syriac, Greek, Arabic, Armenian, and Georgian logic and philosophy texts from the ninth century. For four years he taught languages and texts of Late Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame. More recently, he has taught various Aramaic languages, Gəʕəz, and Greek for Stanford and translated various Syriac texts. His research focuses on grammar, lexicography, and editing and translating texts in regional and transregional languages of antiquity from the Caucasus and the eastern Mediterranean to the horn of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. He has over two decades of experience studying, teaching, translating, and editing texts in Syriac and other Aramaic languages, Arabic, Hebrew, Gǝʕǝz, Coptic, old Georgian, old Armenian, and old Turkic/Uyghur.

Learn more about Bremer-McCollum’s research in this video from the CSWR’s Shorts with Scholars series.