About

Project Team

Kelly Gray

Kelly Gray participated in this project while in her fourth year of her doctoral program in English at Boston College. Her research focuses include post-45 American literature and culture, the environmental humanities, and psychoanalytic theory. Through funding from the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, she spent the summer of 2023 conducting archival research on the Rachel Carson papers at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and conducting field recordings at sites of historical significance to Rachel Carson and the environmental movement. Her digital environmental humanities project, The Silent Spring Soundscape: Lessons in Listening to the Land, combines field recordings in environmental soundscapes with ArcGIS interactive mapping to tell the history of Carson's foundational text, Silent Spring (1962).

Sam Hurwitz

Sam Hurwitz is a fourth year PhD student in the history department at Boston College. Sam's research interests concern Boston history, LGBTQ+ history and 20th century American history. They graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2017 with a degree in History. Sam started to become interested in Digital Humanities in the first year of their PhD program and obtained a certificate in Digital Humanities in May of 2022. Sam believes that by utilizing the tools of Digital Humanities, scholars can enable quicker access to digital scholarship and content, increase the public’s understanding of the local history of Boston and highlight the importance of Boston's historical spaces through virtual recreations.

Elspeth Currie

Elspeth Currie participated in this project while a PhD student in history at Boston College. Before starting her doctoral program, she worked in secondary education for several years, teaching English, ancient history, and Latin. Since returning to academia, Elspeth has focused her research on classical reception and women’s history in early modern England.

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