Jérôme Norris is an epigraphist and historian specializing in the study of the pre-Islamic inscriptions from North-West Arabia, in particular the Ancient North Arabian (Thamudic, Safaitic, Dadanitic, etc.), Nabataean and Aramaic inscriptions. His research focuses on the political history, tribal situation, and geographical distribution of ancient languages and scripts of northern Arabia, from the Iron Age to the dawn of Islam. J. Norris has participated in several archaeological missions in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, among which the French-Saudi Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ Archaeological Project (2002-2023). He worked at the CNRS (France) as part of the Maparabia project (CNRS Paris-Lyon; CNR-ISPC Milan; University of Pisa) and is a member of the DicoNab (Digital Corpus of the Nabataean and Developing Arabic Inscriptions) project. Since May 2024, J. Norris has been working at Ghent University where he serves as Senior Project Manager of the AlUla Inscriptions Analysis Project (AICAP).
