LANCE MYLONAKIS

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ABOUT ME

I have a broad, holistic set of skills that allow me to take on tough projects, and quickly acquire the skills and languages (human or machine) to be able to carry the task to completion. I am an expert in the history of Modern Europe, the Middle East, and Piracy. My time spent researching Greek and Ottoman history taught me how to ask and answer original, salient questions. I am interested in Natural Language Processing and have started a Python project to implement NLP functionality in Ottoman Turkish.

My book on nineteenth-century Mediterranean piracy is now available. Order a copy by clicking here!

HUMANITIES SKILLS

HISTORICAL AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

Learning the historical writings on a topic, identifying a lacuna, and amending the issue with evidence from foreign archives.

TECHNICAL AND GRANT WRITING

Writing according to various style and content guidelines to produced published materials and successful grant applications.

EDITING

Correcting written materials of my own and others for both content and style.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Greek (Modern, Katharevousa) | Turkish (Modern, Ottoman, Karamanlıca) | French | Arabic | Italian

TEACHING

Educating students in argumentative writing and a wide range of historical topics. Creating assessments to evaluate their progress.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROGRAMMING

Python, R, SQL, Bash

Creating powerful tools to help create new insights for the humanities, with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP).

WEB DEVELOPMENT

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, Wix

Creating a user-friendly online space for communicating research and ideas.

IMAGE, VIDEO, AND AUDIO EDITING

Photoshop, Premiere, Audacity

Creating user-facing media.

ANALYTICS

Tableau, ArcGIS, Crimson Hexagon

Using industry-standard tools to produce top-tier analysis of data, geography, and social media.

MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access

Creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations that use advanced features (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, nested IF statements, macros) when necessary.