Cole Crawford
Software Engineer, Harvard
Cole Crawford, a software engineer in Harvard’s Arts and Humanities Research Computing unit, merges literary studies with software development, aiding scholars in creating digital collections and research applications. His research highlights eighteenth and nineteenth-century British labouring class writers.
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Cole Crawford holds an ALM in Software Engineering from Harvard Extension, an MA in Literature and Culture from Oregon State University, and a BS in Computing Science and Informatics and English from Creighton University. He works as a senior software engineer at Harvard University, where he leads the Arts and Humanities Research Computing engineering team in building full stack research applications. Cole serves as on the steering committee for DHTech, on the Harvard IT Staff Council, and is an active member of the IIIF and ADHO communities.
Cole uses his background in research software engineering and literary studies to help humanities scholars build digital infrastructures and projects in order to model, collect, process, and analyze their data and reach wide audiences with their research. Cole’s literary research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British laboring-class writers.