Mills Kelly is Executive Director of the Center for History and New Media and a Professor of History at George Mason University. His new media interests center on public history and the influence of digital media on student learning in history. He co-directed two NEH-funded education projects:
World History Sources and
Women in World History that won the American Historical Association's James Harvey Robinson Award in 2007 for the best teaching resource of the previous two years. He was the principle investigator on another NEH-funded education project:
Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. In recognition of his work on teaching with technology, Mills received the Commonwealth of Virginia's
Outstanding Faculty Award and George Mason University's Teaching Excellence Award in 2005. In 2020 Mills received the
Gutenberg Teaching Award from the University of Mainz. In 1999 he was a Pew National Fellow with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and in 2001-03 was a fellow with the Visible Knowledge Project based at Georgetown University. He is currently working on a digital history of the
Appalachian Trail, America's oldest and most famous long-distance hiking trail.
From 2018-2020, Mills was part of the presidential team of the
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), and served as the organization's president in 2018-2019. Mills is the author of
Teaching History in the Digital Age (2013) and,
Without Remorse: Czech National Socialism in Late-Habsburg Austria (2007).
Mills blogs at
edwired.
