Kelly Schrum
Research Associate Professor
Kelly Schrum is director of educational projects at the Center for History and New Media and associate research professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Schrum is co-director of the websites World History Sources, Women in World History, Making the History of 1989, and Children and Youth in World History, and is associate director for History Matters. She is the academic program director for four Teaching American History grants. Schrum received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls’ Culture, 1920-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004; paperback, 2006). Other publications include History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online (co-authored, 2004; 2nd edition, 2008), World History Matters: A Student Guide to History Online (2008) and “‘Teena Means Business’: Teenage Girls’ Culture and Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1950,” in Delinquent Daughters: Twentieth-Century American Girls’ Culture (1998), reprinted in Robert Griffith and Paula Baker, eds., Major Problems in American History since 1945.
Research Interests
20th-century US; digital history
Contact
Email: kschrum@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.4521
Office: Research 1, 486