Leading Digital Historian to Speak March 9
Professor T. Mills Kelly from the Center for History and New Media at George Washington University will give a campus-wide presentation entitled “Building a Better Yesterday, Bit by Bit or What Hurricanes, the Berlin Wall and Pirates can do for your Teaching” from 10:30–Noon on Tuesday, March 9, in the Union Big 12 Room. All K-Staters are welcome.
Professor Kelly is the executive producer of the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, associate director of the Center for History and New Media, and an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. As stated on his hurricanearchive.org/about website, he is the “principal investigator or co-director of three National Endowment for the Humanities exemplary education projects that provide digital resources to students and teachers of world and European history. In 2005, he received the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award, the state’s highest honor for faculty excellence, and was the first recipient of this award in the category ‘Teaching with Technology.’”
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