Staff profile

As an Education-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics & Ancient History, I teach classical Greek and Latin language and literature, as well as the history of writing. 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.

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, a mentoring liaison officer for the Women's Classical Committee, and a member of the #WCCWiki Wikipedia editing project.

Open-access versions of my publications are available on my Humanities 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 2-3pm (drop-in)

Fridays 2-3pm (sign up in advance for in-person or Zoom: Anna Judson's office hours)

My office is Room 110, 37 North Bailey.

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

Authored book

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

Book review

• 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

• Judson, A. P. (2017). The decipherment: people, process, challenges. In A. Christophilopoulou, Y. Galanakis, & J. Grime (Eds.), Codebreakers & Groundbreakers (15-29). Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
• 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 (111-126). Oxbow Books
• Judson, A. P. (2017). Palaeography, administration, and scribal training: a case-study. In H. Landenius Enegren, & M.-L. Nosch (Eds.), Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015 (193-208). CNR-ISMA

Journal Article

• Judson, A., Shields, K., & Leonard, V. (2023). Wikipedia in Classics Education. Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments, 52,
• Judson, A. P. (2023). THE TABLET-MAKERS OF PYLOS: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRODUCTION OF LINEAR B TABLETS. Annual of the British School at Athens, 118, 147-170. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068245423000059
• 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
• Gnanadesikan, A. E., & Judson, A. P. (2022). Diversity in writing systems. Written Language & Literacy, 24(2), https://doi.org/10.1075/wll.00051.int
• Judson, A. P. (2020). Scribes as Editors: Tracking Changes in the Linear B Documents. American Journal of Archaeology, 124(4), 523-549. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.4.0523
• 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
• 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: Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik, 58(1-2), 111-123. https://doi.org/10.1515/kadmos-2019-0006
• Judson, A. P. (2017). The mystery of the Mycenaean “labyrinth”: the value of Linear B pu2 and related signs
• Judson, A. P. (2013). The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars. Kadmos: Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik, 52(1), 69-110. https://doi.org/10.1515/kadmos-2013-0005

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

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