Staff profile

I am an Education-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics & Ancient History. My specialist research area is the Linear B writing system, used to write administrative documents in prehistoric Greece (c.1400-1200 BCE); I am also interested in pedagogical scholarship, particularly on the teaching of classical languages, and educational uses of Wikipedia. In addition to teaching undergraduate and Master's courses on Linear B and Bronze Age Aegean archaeology, I teach classical Greek and Latin language and literature and the history of writing.

Before starting at Durham in September 2022, I completed my PhD in Classics at the University of Cambridge in 2016, and subsequently held a Research Fellowship in Classics at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (2016-2020), and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the British School at Athens (2020-2022).

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority, the Treasurer of the Women's Classical Committee UK, and a member of the #WCCWiki Wikipedia editing project.

Open-access versions of my publications are available on my Knowledge Commons page; I also blog at 'It's All Greek To Me'.

School talks and outreach

I am happy to give talks on topics related to the history of writing in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East: previous topics include writing in Roman Britain and the decipherment of Linear B. I can also lead activities in which students make and write their own Linear B tablets, and have produced a video and worksheet about making tablets (in English and Greek) to use in school or at home.

Office hours

My office hours for students and mentees are:

Tuesdays 3.30-4.30pm (drop-in)

Fridays 11.30-12.30pm (sign up in advance for in-person or on Teams: Anna Judson's office hours)

My office is Room 110, 37 North Bailey (first floor).

• The Linear B writing system
• Mycenaean Greek
• Aegean & Cypriot writing systems
• Greek historical linguistics
• Classical pedagogy

Authored book

• The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
  
  Judson, A. P. (2020). The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859745

Book review

• Review of John Killen, The new documents in Mycenaean Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 1199. ISBN 9781009286091.
  
  Judson, A. (2024). Review of John Killen, The new documents in Mycenaean Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 1199. ISBN 9781009286091. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Article 2024.12.20.

Chapter in book

• The decipherment: people, process, challenges
  
  Judson, A. P. (2017). The decipherment: people, process, challenges. In A. Christophilopoulou, Y. Galanakis, & J. Grime (Eds.), Codebreakers & Groundbreakers (pp. 15-29). Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the "extra" signs
  
  Judson, A. P. (2017). Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the "extra" signs. In P. M. Steele (Ed.), Understanding Relations Between Scripts: the Aegean Writing Systems (pp. 111-126). Oxbow Books.
• Palaeography, administration, and scribal training: a case-study
  
  Judson, A. P. (2017). Palaeography, administration, and scribal training: a case-study. In H. Landenius Enegren & M. Nosch (Eds.), Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015 (pp. 193-208). CNR-ISMA.

Conference Paper

• Signs of the times? Testing the chronological significance of Linear A and B palaeography
  
  Salgarella, E., & Judson, A. (2024). Signs of the times? Testing the chronological significance of Linear A and B palaeography. In J. Bennet, A. Karnava, & T. Meissner (Eds.), Ko-ro-no-we-sa. Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies, September 2021 (pp. 359-379). University of Crete.
• The date of the final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos
  
  Davis, J. L., Stocker, S. R., Vitale, S., Bennet, J., Brecoulaki, H., & Judson, A. (2024). The date of the final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. In J. Bennet, A. Karnava, & T. Meissner (Eds.), KO-RO-NO-WE-SA Proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies, September2021 (pp. 527-543). University of Crete.

Journal Article

• Wikipedia in Classics Education
  
  Judson, A., Shields, K., & Leonard, V. (2023). Wikipedia in Classics Education. Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments, 52.
• THE TABLET-MAKERS OF PYLOS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION OF LINEAR B TABLETS
  
  Judson, A. P. (2023). THE TABLET-MAKERS OF PYLOS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION OF LINEAR B TABLETS. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 118, 147-170. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068245423000059
• LEARNING TO SPELL IN LINEAR B: ORTHOGRAPHY AND SCRIBAL TRAINING IN MYCENAEAN PYLOS
  
  Judson, A. P. (2022). LEARNING TO SPELL IN LINEAR B: ORTHOGRAPHY AND SCRIBAL TRAINING IN MYCENAEAN PYLOS. The Cambridge Classical Journal, 68, 133-163. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1750270522000057
• Diversity in writing systems
  
  Gnanadesikan, A. E., & Judson, A. P. (2022). Diversity in writing systems. Written Language & Literacy, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00051.int
• Scribes as Editors: Tracking Changes in the Linear B Documents
  
  Judson, A. P. (2020). Scribes as Editors: Tracking Changes in the Linear B Documents. American Journal of Archaeology. The Journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, 124(4), 523-549. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.4.0523
• Orthographic variation as evidence for the development of the Linear B writing system
  
  Judson, A. P. (2020). Orthographic variation as evidence for the development of the Linear B writing system. Written Language & Literacy, 22(2), 179-197. https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00025.jud
• Two new Linear B tablets and an enigmatic find from Bronze Age Pylos (Palace of Nestor)
  
  Judson, A. P., Bennet, J., Davis, J. L., & Stocker, S. R. (2019). Two new Linear B tablets and an enigmatic find from Bronze Age Pylos (Palace of Nestor). Kadmos, 58(1-2), 111-123. https://doi.org/10.1515/kadmos-2019-0006
• The mystery of the Mycenaean “labyrinth”: the value of Linear B pu2 and related signs
  
  Judson, A. P. (2017). The mystery of the Mycenaean “labyrinth”: the value of Linear B pu2 and related signs. Studi Micenei Ed Egeo-Anatolici Nuova Serie, 3, 53-72.
• The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars
  
  Judson, A. P. (2013). The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars. Kadmos, 52(1), 69-110. https://doi.org/10.1515/kadmos-2013-0005

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• CoPY: Concordance to Pylos scribal attributions
  
  Judson, A. P. (2020). CoPY: Concordance to Pylos scribal attributions [Dataset].