W. Dean Eastman
Co-Founder
PrimaryResearch is the brainchild of W. Dean Eastman. He taught history at Beverly High School in Beverly, Massachusetts, until his retirement in 2006. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Disney American Teacher Award (1991), Harvard University’s Derek Bok Prize for Public Service (2000), and the Preserve America Massachusetts History Teacher of the Year Award (2004). Dean was an educational legend whose legacy lives on in the lives of the many that he taught and inspired over his long career and that continues on through this website. He passed away in 2025.
Kevin McGrath
Co-Founder
Kevin remembers vividly the day in 1998 when he and Dean drew this website on a napkin. Its since grown into a stack of napkins, but the vision is the same. At the moment, Kevin is either teaching in the library at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, teaching, illustrating, designing websites, or hanging out with his wife Cynthia and son Connor. Contact