Kelly L. Marino, Ph.D.
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Dr. Kelly Marino is a historian of 20th century America with a focus on women’s history and the history of sexuality. A native of Connecticut, she is also passionate about state and local history. She received her BSED and CT Teacher’s Certification from CCSU in 2008 and MA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2010. She graduated with her Ph.D. from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2016 and started work at Sacred Heart in the Fall of 2019. Dr. Marino teaches courses on United States history, western civilization, and women's studies.
Her first book (Votes for College Women, NYU Press 2024) explores the connections between advances in women’s higher education and the woman suffrage movement. Centrally, her project examines how college students and campuses became important new protest spaces for women’s suffrage and women’s rights during the Progressive Era. Her second book (in-progress) considers the legacies of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment for American education and women's continued activism on campuses during the interwave period in the 1920s and 1930s for issues such as gender equality in academia, women's civic literacy, and other causes like the Equal Rights Amendment.
Dr. Marino's research focuses on the importance of young people, particularly young women, and educational activism to fueling social and political movements. She is especially interested in issues of education, age, race/class/gender, and sexuality.
Degrees & Certifications
- Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2016. Dissertation Title: “Votes for College Women”: Women’s Suffrage and Higher Education in Modern America
- MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2010
- BSED and CT Teacher’s Certification, Central Connecticut State University, 2008
Teaching Responsibilities
- United States History to 1865
- United States History since 1865
- Western Civilization since 1500
- Women/Gender/Sexuality
Research Interests
- Women’s and Gender History
- History of Sexuality
- History of Education
- Social and Political Movements
- Gilded Age/Progressive Era America
- Connecticut History
- 20th Century American History
Grants
- 2024-2025 Presidential Seminar Participant, Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Sacred Heart University
- Summer 2020 Micro-Grant for Research, The Society of Civil War Historians, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
- 2019-2020 Faculty Fellowship, “Critical Thinking across the Curriculum” Program, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching, Sacred Heart University
- 2018-2019 AAUP Curriculum Development Grant, “Breaking the Mold: Faculty-Student Teaching Opportunities in Residential Life,” Co-applicant and participant, Central Connecticut State University
- Spring 2016 Binghamton Foundation Travel Grant, Binghamton University
- Fall 2014 Binghamton Foundation Travel Grant, Binghamton University
- Fall 2013 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Binghamton University
- Fall 2013 Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Fall 2013 Sophia Smith Travel-to-Collections Grant, Sophia Smith Collection & College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, MA
- Fall 2013 Wheeler/Nieman Research Grant, Binghamton University
- Spring 2013 Newcomb Archives Travel-to-Collections Grant, Newcomb Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA