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Prof. Kelsie Brook Eckert, MEd sse

Kelsie Brook Eckert (she/her) is the Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University, the Executive Director of the Remedial Herstory Project, the New Hampshire State Coordinator for National History Day, and a Board Member for the New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies. Her 2024 book, Teaching Women's History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Social Studies was published by Routledge. She taught high school social studies and was a two-time New Hampshire History Teacher of the Year awarded by National History Day and the Gilder Lehrman Institute. At PSU she won the 2024 Transformative Teaching award and was recognized with the Theo Kalikow award for her work advancing women. She has developed dozens of inquiry-based lesson plans on diverse women’s history hosts a podcast on women’s history. She has a TEDx talk about the importance of diverse women’s history titled It Has to Be Half. Eckert is a world traveler and an avid former college athlete, now a many-time ironman triathlete. She is also a wife and the mother of two amazing boys.

Plymouth State University Graduate Contributors:

2022: Patrick Mignanelli
2023: Brent Coope and Hayden Huard
2024: Lauren Connolly, Chris Ryan, Leighton Sackos, Andrea Larochelle, Hannah Culcassi, Alex Seigars, Lilly Egounis-Musumeci, Megan Wallace, and Sean Gray.
2025: Jacqueline Santagate, Rene Pinter, Connor Dobson, Julieenne Provencher, Gavin McWeeney, and Nate Allen