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 graduated with her Ph.D. from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2016.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 women's 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 interwar 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.