Greta Frei

Greta Frei is the Project Manager for the China Historical Christian Database and a PhD student in Boston University’s History Department studying with Eugenio Menegon. Greta received her undergraduate degree in Computer Science with a supplemental major in Chinese from the University of Notre Dame. Her undergraduate thesis studied the theme of suffering in Su Xuelin’s novel Heart of Thorns, a semi-autobiographical work about a May Fourth intellectual who converts to Catholicism. Greta also worked in Notre Dame’s natural language processing research lab where she built language models to improve the transcription of medieval Latin text from scanned images. In her PhD program, Greta leverages her technical background to visualize and analyze Christianity’s development in China, with specific focus on literature written by Chinese Christians in the late Qing and Republican periods. She is also a graduate student fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering where she explores how computational methods can be used in the field of history.