Kelly Schrum
- Director of Educational Projects
- kschrum@gmu.edu
- (703) 993-4521
Kelly Schrum is the Director of Educational Projects at the Center for History and New Media and an Associate Professor at George Mason University. Schrum received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and is the author of Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls’ Culture, 1920-1950 (2004; paperback 2006). Other publications include U.S. History Matters: A Student Guide to History Online (co-authored, 2004; 2nd ed 2008), World History Matters: A Student Guide to History Online (co-authored, 2008) and “‘Teena Means Business’: Teenage Girls’ Culture and Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1950,” in Delinquent Daughters: Twentieth-Century American Girls’ Culture, reprinted in Major Problems in American History since 1945. Schrum is co-director of the websites Making the History of 1989, Children and Youth in History, World History Sources and Women in World History, and is associate director for History Matters. She is the Academic Program Director on four Teaching American History grants in Virginia and Maryland. She has worked extensively in the areas of 20th-century American culture, new media, and teacher training.
