Come and participate in a lively discussion of the role of digital media in graduate education!
Opportunities? Obstacles? Digital dissertations? New media faculty research?
Learn about the opportunities available to faculty and GC students at the NML!
Refreshments will be served.
For more information contact: Avasquez1@gc.cuny.edu
Moderator: Joshua Brown, Co-director, New Media Lab
Prof. Kevin Murphy (Art History)
Prof. David Jaffee (History)
Prof. Brian Schwartz (Physics)
Moderator: Andrea Ades Vasquez, Managing Director, New Media Lab
Dr. Yuri Artemov, dissertation completed 2005, Physics
Dr. Beth Counihan, dissertation completed 2005, English
Ellen La Forge, doctoral student in Art History
Rebecca Amato, doctoral student in History
Dr. Edmund Lingan, dissertation completed 2005, Theatre
Moderator: Brian Schwartz, Co-director, New Media Lab
Dr. Saul Fisher, Director of Fellowship Programs, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Dr. John C. Cherniavsky, Senior Advisor for Research/EHR, National Science Foundation (NSF)
William P. Kelly is President of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the doctorate granting institution of the nation's largest urban university.
Brier is co-director of the New Media Lab and Vice President for Information Technology and External Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. Brier co-founded the American Social History Project in 1981 and served as its director until 1998. He co-authored and edited the Project's Who Built America? textbook, co-authored and co-created the WBA? CD-ROMs, and served as executive producer of the Project's ten-part WBA? video series. He also served as the Executive Director of the Graduate School's Center for Media and Learning from 1990 to 1998. He is a historian of the U.S. working class, with a particular interest in issues of race, class and ethnicity. Brier received his Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA. He has published a number of historical articles as well as several pieces on the impact of new technology on teaching and learning in scholarly journals.
Joshua Brown
Brown is currently co-director of The Graduate Center's New Media Lab and executive director of the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning. He is also professor of History at The Graduate Center. His cartoons and illustrations appear in popular and scholarly and digital publications. He is author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America and The Hungry Eye (a serialized online historical novel as well as co-author of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, and co-editor of History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices.
Kevin Murphy
Murphy has written on historicism in the United States and France in the 19th- and 20th- centuries. His work has considered the variety of expressions of historicism in historic preservation projects, in the representation of medieval architecture in modernist painting, and in architectural historiography. He has written on French architect and theorist Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, on the Colonial Revival in the United States, and on the historiography of early American architecture. He has held Fulbright, Chateaubriand, and National Gallery of Art fellowships, and a Graham Foundation grant.
David Jaffee
Jaffee is a professor of history specializing in Early America, Material and Visual Culture, and New Media and Pedagogy at City College and The Graduate Center. He has published widely on the relationship between technology and pedagogy. His work can be viewed at http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/investigatinghistory/.
Schwartz is Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs and co-director of the New Media and professor of Physics at Brooklyn College. His current position includes the coupling of City University faculty and graduate student research with high technology industry for economic development in New York City and elsewhere. He also directs the Graduate Center's Science & the Arts series of programs in theatre, art, music, and dance that bridge the worlds of art and science.
Welz is an instructor in the Mathematics Department of CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Through the Scientific Rich Media Archive Project, an idea he developed at the New Media Lab, Welz produced a template for collecting and making web-accessible the wealth of scientific visualizations currently housed at universities and research facilities worldwide. He also uses new media in his renowned stand-up comedy routines.
Andrea Ades Vasquez
Vasquez is currently Managing Director of the Graduate Center’s New Media Lab and multimedia producer at the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. She joined ASHP/CML in 1990 as an artist, designer, and producer of multimedia materials and websites. She is an executive director and artistic director of The Lost Museum, the 3-D exploration of P. T. Barnum's American Museum. Her other credits include writing and audiovisual production for the WBA? CD-ROMs; co-writing and producer of ASHP's documentary Up South; and co-director and artist for the documentaries Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl and Savage Acts. She was also artist and designer for the History Matters:The U.S. Survey Course on the Web.
For his dissertation, which he defended in 2005, Physics graduate Yuri Artemov used the equipment at the New Media Lab to perform complex calculations and visualizations of the vortices in Type II Superconductors. The three-dimensional models he published on-line are now being used by physicists to understand and fabricate better superconductors for the future.
Counihan earned her Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center in 2005 and is a composition instructor at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. At the New Media Lab, she produced Mousepads and Memoirs: An Online Oral History Project with Senior Women, which connected women from the Peter Cooper Village-Stuyvesant Town Senior Center to the internet through memoir-writing.
Ellen La Forge
Art History Ph.D. student Ellen La Forge, works with the New Media Lab to enhance her interactive web site, The Heart of the Andes: Frederic Church's Painting as Originally Viewed. The site, which recreates the viewing experience of Church's massive, lush landscape paintings, uses Flash technology and text to give visitors a more intimate perspective on the artist's work.
A Ph.D. student in U.S. history at The CUNY Graduate Center, Rebecca Amato is the co-producer with Irene Meisel of Virtual New York, an on-line exhibit space and database devoted to New York City history. The site is based on the collections of the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library, now housed at The Graduate Center.
A 2005 graduate of The CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. program in Theatre, Lingan is working with the New Media Lab to produce the International Institute for the Study of Performance and Spiritual Movements, a website and on-line journal that will explore the relationship between theatre and religion.
Dr. Saul Fisher
Dr. Saul Fisher is Director of Fellowship Programs of the ACLS. The ACLS Fellowship Programs support individual research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.
Dr. John Cherniavsky
Dr. John Cherniavsky manages multidisciplinary programs at the National Science Foundation involving education and technology within the Education and Human Resources Directorate. Currently he is the program manager for the Interagency Education Research Initiative, coordinator of the Small Business Innovative Research program for education, coordinator of the information technology research initiative, and coordinator for the Advanced Learning Technology activity. Previously at NSF he was the division director for the Experimental and Integrative Activities division in the Computer, Information Sciences, and Engineering directorate. He has published recently in the area of educational technology and previously in software engineering and theoretical computer science. Internationally John has been coordinating eLearning programs with the European Union and Taiwan.