Rate My Professor T Mills Kelly

T. Mills Kelly is a retired Professor of History at George Mason University, where he taught for 24 years, and a Senior Scholar at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), serving as its director from 2019 to 2023. He earned his PhD from George Washington University in 1996, MA from the same institution in 1988, and BA from the University of Virginia in 1982. Kelly's academic interests include digital humanities, public digital history, historical pedagogy, Appalachian Studies, modern East Central Europe, environmental history, and the scholarship of teaching and learning in history. He has served as co-director or principal investigator on digital history grants exceeding $7 million from sources such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and others. In spring 2024, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and a visiting scholar at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. He hosts The Green Tunnel podcast, which has garnered over 150,000 downloads.

Kelly has published several books, including A Hiker's History of the Appalachian Trail (The History Press, 2025), Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail (The History Press, 2023), Teaching History in the Digital Age (University of Michigan Press, 2013), World History Matters: A Student Guide to World History Online with Kristin Lehner and Kelly Schrum (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009), and Without Remorse: Czech National Socialism in Late Habsburg Austria (East European Monographs/Columbia University Press, 2007). His articles include contributions to Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 and the Handbook of Digital Public History. Awards include the 2019 Gutenberg Teaching Award from Johannes Gutenberg University, State Council on Higher Education in Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Award, Pew National Fellowship from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, George Mason University's Teaching Excellence Award, and two James Harvey Robinson Prizes from the American Historical Association. He was president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2018-2019), trustee of the Romanian-American Foundation (2011-2020), chair of the Civic Education Project board (1998-2002), and currently chairs the Handmade Music School board and serves on the Appalachian Trail Museum board.