Dr. Kevin Reilly is a humanities professor at Raritan Valley Community College who has previously taught at Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. Dr. Reilly co-founded and served as the first president of the World History Association. He wrote The West and the World and edited Worlds of History, Readings in World Civilization, and the World History Syllabus Collection.

Kevin developed the “Modern Global Migrations” globe at Ellis Island’s Museum of the History of Immigration as an expert in immigration history. His research into the history of racism led to the publication of Racism: A Global Reader, which he edited.

He was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil and Jordan, as well as a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in Greece, Oxford, and India. He was voted Distinguished Educator of the Year by the Community College Humanities Association in 1992.

Professor Reilly has served on a number of committees including the American Historical Association’s governing council. The World History Association presented him with the World History Pioneer award in 2010. He recently published The Human Journey: A Concise Introduction to World History and is the author of the best-selling textbook Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader used in many colleges.