Linguistics Undergraduate Students

Linguistics Undergraduate Student

Rebecca Greene knew one thing when she came to college from Elliott County in eastern Kentucky. She was going to leave her tiny hometown of Sandy Hook and become an astrophysicist. No doubt about it.

Both her parents were teachers, and she was reading at a very young age. Greene seemed far enough ahead of the other kids that she was “outcast and ostracized” from the start. “So, I was turned against my hometown in certain ways,” Greene said. “I thought I needed to get out of there – that it was suffocating and oppressive.”

The John Dickinson Writings Project, directed by Jane Calvert and co-directed by Mark Richard Lauersdorf, is the recipient of a $200,000 Scholarly Editions Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Linguistics Undergraduate Student

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