Kelsie (she/her) is an award-winning history teacher and co-founder of the Remedial Herstory Project. 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 and the State Coordinator for National History Day in New Hampshire. She was 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 has served on the Board of Directors for the NH Council for Social Studies (NHCSS) since 2014. 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 Brooke Sullivan presented their TEDx Talk: It Has to Be Half. ​​

Signature Talks

It Has to Be Half

Inquiry for Including Women’s History

Gendering Economics Class

Gendering Government Class

Additional History Talks

Women in War

The Daughters of Chinggis Khan

Olympe de Gouge and the Legacy of the French Revolution

Captivity in New England Wars