Kelsie Eckert

Kelsie Eckert

Assistant Professor of Practice
Program Coordinator for Social Studies Education
Phone: (603) 535-3072
Office: Memorial Hall, Room 108, Plymouth, NH 03264
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Education

BA, Principia College
MEd, Plymouth State University

Kelsie Brook Eckert is an award-winning history teacher and college professor. She taught high school social studies for the better part of a decade and is now the Coordinator of Social Studies Education at Plymouth State University, the State Coordinator for National History Day in New Hampshire, and the Founder of the Remedial Herstory Project. 

She was named the 2026 New Hampshire 40 under 40, awarded the 2024 PSU Transformative Teaching award as well as the 2024 Theo Kalikow award for her work advancing women’s rights in New Hampshire. As a high school teacher, she was the 2020 Gilder Lehrman NH Teacher of the year and 2019 Nominee, a 2016 Normandy Scholar, the 2015 NH National History Day Teacher of the Year, and long served on the Board of Directors for the NH Council for Social Studies (NHCSS). 

Eckert is the author of Teaching Women’s History: Breaking Barriers and Undoing Male Centrism in K-12 Curricula (London: Routledge, 2025) and Inquiry Everyday: the Case and Resources for 180 days of Inquiry in Social Studies (London: Routledge, 2026). She and co-founder of RHP Brooke Sullivan presented their TEDx Talk: It Has to Be Half.