Kelly Schrum

Friday, June 20, 2003
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Panel Four: Women's Private Lives

Kelly Schrum is assistant director of the Center for History and New Media and assistant research professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and is currently revising her dissertation, Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture, 1920-1950 for publication (Palgrave-St. Martin's Press, forthcoming). Other publications include "'Teena Means Business': Teenage Girls' Culture and Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1950" in Sherrie Inness, ed., Delinquent Daughters: Twentieth-Century American Girls' Culture (1998) and "'That Cosmopolitan Feeling': Teenage Girls and Literacy, 1920-1970" in Jane Greer, ed., Girls and Literacy (forthcoming). Schrum has also worked extensively in the areas of new media, history content development, and teacher training.