Hi there, my name is Spencer Lekki and I’m a senior History major, Digital Arts and Humanities & Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor at Carleton College. My primary academic focus is on Early Modern Ireland, but I’ve worked on projects all over Western Europe from the Ancient and Medieval to the modern day. Outside of academics I love to swim, cook, watch soccer, and play board and video games.

I came to DH through a class I took my first year of undergrad called “Bringing the English Past to (Virtual) Life”. As the name suggests, it combined a survey of English history with a series of digital projects (some of which are displayed on this site!). From then on my coursework danced in and around the digital until the DGAH minor was finally created my junior year and I began pursuing the field in earnest. Since then, through a combination of classes and outside work, DH has become an integral part of my academic study, including my senior thesis; a quantitative history paper on the Irish Rising of 1641.