Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), formerly the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), is a research center specializing in digital history and information technology at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax County, Virginia. It was one of the first digital history centers in the world, established by Roy Rosenzweig in 1994 to use digital media and information technology to democratize history: to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. Its current director is T. Mills Kelly. History Under Roy Rosenzweig CHNM was founded in the fall of 1994 by Roy Rosenzweig as a research center within the GMU Department of History and Art History. Its origins lay in Rosenzweig's work with Steve Brier and Josh Brown on a CD-ROM version of the American Social History Project's American history textbook, Who Built America? but as Rosenzweig was initially the only person at the center, it was located in his office. He was joined in 1995 by Michael O'Malley, who became the center's Associate Director, and then-PhD-student Elena Razlogova, who became the center's first paid staff member. During office moves in 1997, the center expanded to two offices connected by a lobby with the department's computers and printer. In 1999, it secured a challenge grant from the NEH which allowed it to establish an endowment in support of the center. This was followed in 2000 by a grant from the Alfred Sloan Foundation, which led to a major expansion of center personnel and its relocating to its own space, separate from the department. Renaming In 2007, Rosenzweig died of cancer at the age of only 57. Dan Cohen succeeded him as director and a second NEH challenge grant to build the center endowment provided the opportunity to rename the center in his honor. On April 15, 2011, the Center for History and New Media became the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. After Roy Rosenzweig In 2013, Cohen left the center to become the founding executive director of the Digital Public Library of America and was succeeded as director by Stephen Robertson. In 2018, The Chronicle of Higher Education released a report on the top universities to receive funding from the NEH over the past years. George Mason had the eighth highest funding amount nationwide, with 61% of that funding awarded to RRCHNM. As the center