Session Host

Gabrielle Vail

Dr. Gabrielle Vail specializes in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic texts and develops workshops to share these materials with descendant communities, students, and educators. Her affiliations include the Anthropology Department at UNC, Chapel Hill, and the Script Encoding Initiative (UC Berkeley), where she collaborates on developing a font based on Classic Maya hieroglyphs. A recipient of four NEH awards, she has contributed to the field of Digital Humanities since its inception, most recently through a project with the Unicode Consortium. She is the author of numerous publications, including The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. Volume 2: The Codices, co-authored with Martha Macri.

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