Greta Swain
Greta is a third-year PhD student. She received her bachelor’s degree in History from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, and a master’s degree in History from George Mason University. She was also part of the inaugural cohort of Mason’s Graduate Certificate in Digital Public Humanities. Greta’s dissertation combines her interests in early American history and digital history through a geospatial analysis of three generations of the George Mason family. After graduation, Greta hopes to share her passion for history education at a museum or historic site, or in the college classroom.
Over the past several years Greta has been absolutely essential to three different projects at RRCHNM: Mapping Early American Elections, Current Research in Digital History, and American Religious Ecologies. She has written interpretative historical essays, done data analysis and dataset creation, developed policies and procedures, and represented the center's work at several different academic conferences. She also manages a large team of undergraduate research assistants and corresponds with external authors and stakeholders. In every respect, she is an exemplary collaborator and scholar at RRCHNM.