Jill Belli received a B.A. in English & Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the English Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation explores the intersections among Happiness Studies (cultural representations, scientific research, policy development), pedagogies & educational curriculum, and Utopian Studies (theory, literature, & the "utopian impulse" broadly conceived). In additional to completing doctoral certificates in American Studies and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, Jill also researches and writes about Composition & Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities.

Jill happily returns this year to the Macaulay community as a third-year ITF at Baruch. Along with much enthusiasm, she brings to MHC her experience teaching composition and literature courses at Baruch College, Queens College, & Stern College for Women, working at the Baruch Writing Center, and creating (as the Society's web developer) a new interactive digital space for the Society for Utopian Studies.

Amanda Favia is a PhD candidate in the Philosophy Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is currently writing her dissertation exploring how the biological sciences, i.e., Neo-Darwinian Evolutionary Theory, relate to morality. Prior to becoming an ITF, Amanda worked as a Writing Fellow at the CUNY School of Law and taught courses in philosophy at both Brooklyn College and Nassau Community College for several years. She also has an interest in bioethics and has worked as an Ethics Fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 2006. As an Ethics Consultation Intern for The VA Hospital in NYC, she worked in the National Center for Ethics in Healthcare and in 2009 she co-authored an article published in the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine about ethics education in the Surgery rotation.

Kiersten Greene is a PhD candidate in the Urban Education program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests lie at the intersection of policy, practice, and technology in the K-12 public school classroom. Her dissertation focuses on the content of blogs written by teachers about their daily experiences, and how these narratives can inform future school reform and policymaking decisions. She is currently an Instructional Technology Fellow with the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College. She was a CUNY Writing Fellow at Hunter College, and taught education courses in the School of Education at Hunter as a CUNY Graduate Teaching Fellow. She has taught education courses at Pace University, and prior to starting work on her PhD taught fifth grade at a public school in New York City for five years. When she's not teaching, researching, or writing, you can find her knitting.

Emily Sherwood is a PhD candidate in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She received a Masters degree in Shakespeare: Text and Playhouse from King's College London and a Bachelors degree in Dramatic Literature, Theatre and Playwriting from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. She is currently working on a digital humanities edition of Nathan Field's 1611 play A Woman is a Weathercock. Her dissertation focuses on ways that women define themselves beyond the socially privileged category of wife in medieval and early modern literature and culture. Emily is an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors College at Baruch. Previously, she taught Shakespeare and Early British Literature at Hunter College.

Suzanne Tamang is a PhD student in Computer Science program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation focuses on extending temporal data mining techniques using electronic health record data as a case study. Previous to her appointment as an Instructional Technology fellow at Macaulay, Suzanne received a NSF Graduate STEM Fellowship and was a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College.

Margaret Galvan is pursuing a PhD in English and a film studies certificate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Borough of Manhattan Community College and serves as one of the coordinators of OpenCUNY, the student organized, open-source, social media for the Graduate Center community. Her research focuses on the representation of women's bodies in twentieth and twenty-first century graphic, filmic, and text narratives.

Jenny Kijowski is a Ph.D. candidate in English at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, where she has a certificate in Film Studies and is working on a certificate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy. She is also an Instructional Technology Fellow for Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College. Prior to becoming an ITF, Jenny taught composition and literature courses at Queens College and BMCC as a Graduate Teaching Fellow. Her dissertation will examine gender, nationalism and the literature of trauma.

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two children (twins Nico and Luca), and another sort of child, a 75-pound pit bull named Iggy.

Laurel Mei Turbin is a Geography PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. As an Instructional Technology Fellow at Brooklyn College, Laurel aims to incorporate multimedia approaches with popular education strategies to enhance dynamic and interactive learning. Originally from Honolulu, Laurel is studying militarization, the environment, colonialism, and race in Hawai'i for her dissertation research. Prior to attending the Graduate Center, Laurel earned a Bachelors in English at UCLA, a Masters in Public Health at Columbia University, and has worked in community organizations addressing environmental justice and gentrification. For the past six years, Laurel has worked with CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities to build the power of working class Asian immigrants through political education and leadership development.

Dana Milstein is completing a dissertation on nineteenth century music and poetry with certifications in Interdisciplinary Studies and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. She is interested in all things Victorian, and recently expanded her interests to publish and present articles on Asia, focusing on Shanghai and the Romantic influence on the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Movement, anime music videos, as well as the translation of nineteenth century Western Philosophy into Japanese manga. She is currently researching Steampunk culture and mash-ups of gothic fiction, and posthumous memoirs that destroyed writer’s reputations during the nineteenth century. In addition to working as an ITF, Dana teaches literature, Composition, French, and other Humanities courses at nine universities. She is also completing a yoga certification with focus on treating depression, PTSD, and chronic pain disorders, and plans to open a yoga studio in New Zealand and promote lifestyle wellness once her Ph.D. is finished.

Anton Borst is a PhD candidate in English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He specializes in antebellum American literature and Romanticism and is completing a certificate in American Studies. Interested in the intersections of literature and science, he is currently exploring the impact of phrenology on Walt Whitman and mid-nineteenth century American culture for his dissertation. As an ITF Anton is based at Hunter College, where previously he taught literature and writing and also worked as a Writing Fellow. He served in the Peace Corps in Nepal after receiving his BA in English and the Program of Liberal Studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Jen Gieseking is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation research focuses on the production of lesbians' and queer women's urban spaces and places in New York City from 1983 to 2008 in order to understand what the shifts say about their changing experiences of justice and oppression. She recently continued this work by performing a comparison study in Berlin as an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow (2010-2011). Her previous work has examined how the physical, social, and historical campus is affected and reflected in the identity development of its students and alumnae spanning generations throughout the 20th century. She is interested in the co-production of urban space and identity with a special focus on sexuality and gender; cognitive and mental mapping methodologies; theories of the geographical imagination; the intersection of the productions of history, myth, and memory, space, and time; and expressions and experiences of justice, oppression, and the everyday.

She is holding or has held fellowships with Macaulay Honors College CUNY as Instructional Technology Fellow, Hunter College CUNY as Writing Fellow, The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Summer Institute for Geographers of Justice, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellows Program, as well as being the recipient of the CUNY Graduate Center Proshansky Dissertation Award. She has performed research with the Public Space Research Group of the Center for Human Environments.

Jesse Goldstein is working on his PhD in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work focuses on the history of capitalist socio-spatial relations, and his dissertation will focus specifically on waste, from agricultural wastelands to disposable consumer products, to current green invectives not to waste the planet that we all inhabit. Jesse is a founding member of the SpaceTime Research Collective and of the Historical Materialism New York organizing collective. Prior to arriving at CUNY, Jesse spent 5 years working as part of an art collective in Philadelphia called Space 1026, and he continues to work as a printmaker in his free time, often collaborating with members of the art collective JustSeeds. Prior to becoming an ITF, Jesse spent three years teaching sociology at Baruch. He has an MA in Politics from York University (Toronto) and a BA from Brown University.

Jessica Hammerman is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History. She is writing her dissertation about French Jews and their political, intellectual, and social understandings of the Algerian War for Independence in the 1950s and 1960s. Jessica has been a Fellow at the Center for Jewish History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and she was the Randolph Braham dissertation fellow in 2008-2009. She has taught surveys in world history and European history at Baruch College and Brooklyn College, where she was also a writing fellow for two years. Jessica is an ITF at Hunter College.

Fiona Lee was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She came to the United States to complete her undergraduate degree at SUNY Geneseo, where she obtained a B.A. in Communication and English (summa cum laude). She is currently a Ph.D Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include postcolonial nationalism, globalization/transnational studies, and gender studies. She is also the co-chair of the Postcolonial Studies Group. Prior to being an ITF at Hunter College, Fiona previously taught literature and composition courses at Baruch and Queens Colleges as a Graduate Teaching Fellow.

Sam, who grew up in the Bronx, is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received a BA in Sociology (with High Honors) and English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Before he was an ITF at Lehman College, he was Substitute (Visiting) Instructor of Sociology at the College of Staten Island. He studies and writes generally in the fields of social and cultural theory, media studies, religion, and race. His dissertation explores the connections between religion and new (digital) media technologies. He is the author of Navigating Technomedia (2007), Web 2.0 (2011) and editor (with Daniel Chaffee) of The Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader (2009).

Lisa Brundage is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and holds an MA from the New School for Social Research. Lisa is currently a central Instructional Technology Fellow on the Macaulay Campus, after initially working as an ITF at the College of Staten Island. Prior to that, she was a CUNY Writing Fellow at Brooklyn College, where she has also taught composition and literature courses. Additionally, Lisa has taught women's studies at Hunter College, and worked in after-school computer programs in NYC’s public elementary schools. Lisa is currently writing her dissertation on lesbian parents and racial motherhood in literature from 1928-2008.

Gregory T. Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology and certificate candidate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has previously held fellowships at The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and The Stanton/Heiskell Center for Telecommunication Policy, and has conducted research at The CUNY New Media Lab, The Center for Human Environments, and with several children's educational media groups.

Gregory's research focuses on the political ecology of informational capitalism and operates at the intersection of Urban Studies, Youth Studies, and Internet Studies. His dissertation, MyDigitalFootprint.org, is a participatory action research project with New York City youth that explores the everyday experiences of young people developing within proprietary digital environments.

Lindsey M. Freer is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also earning a doctoral certificate in American Studies. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from Barnard College (cum laude; department honors), and an M.Phil in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her academic specialty is twentieth-century American poetry, and her dissertation examines the structural strategies used by American poets throughout the 1980s as a means of predicting the long-term political and cultural effects of the Cold War. Lindsey has taught writing and humanities courses at BMCC, York College, and the City College Center for Worker Education, as well as at Mercy College and Hofstra University. She currently teaches American literature at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Born and raised in southeastern Minnesota, she is a proud alumna of the AmeriCorps national service program. When not about the business of teaching and learning, she takes pictures; recent photography publications include the Virginia Quarterly Review and the forthcoming Macaulay viewbook.

John F. Sorrentino is a PhD Candidate in French Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation is entitled "Gide in the First Person: The 'I' of Religion and Same-Sex Sexuality." He has taught French language courses throughout CUNY and is currently teaching French at John Jay College of Criminal Justice as well as an online French course for the NHTI, Concord's Community College in New Hampshire. As a Macaulay ITF, John worked for three years at Brooklyn College before joining the central team in 2009.

Maggie Dickinson is an Instructional Technology Fellow at Queens College and a Doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation research looks at the response to growing hunger and food insecurity in New York City.  She is interested more generally in the politics of poverty and the changing role of the welfare state in American life.  She has taught courses in anthropology and sociology at Baruch and Queens Colleges, including  “The Social and Cultural History of New York City” and “The Politics of Food and Eating”.   She has also published articles on the politics of graffiti. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.  Prior to graduate school, she worked as a labor organizer and grassroots activist.

Tsai-Shiou Hsieh is an Instructional Technology Fellow at Queens College, where she worked as a Writing Fellow and the WAC Assessment Research and Educational Technologies Coordinator. Tsai-Shiou just finished her dissertation, entitled "Re-locating Recycling: a contextual analysis of recycling behavior in the USA and Germany" from Environmental Psychology at CUNY Graduate Center. Prior to the doctorate, Tsai-Shiou received her M.S. in Urban and Rural Planning and her B.S. in Zoology with a minor in Psychology from National Taiwan University. She is interested in cross-cultural aspects of pro-environmental behavior and plans to do research on the impact of climate change on people's everyday life. She is currently working on a chapter which will be included in the Handbook of Environmental Leadership.

Soniya Munshi is a doctoral candidate in Sociology, with a certificate in Women's Studies, at the CUNY Graduate Center. Before becoming an ITF at Queens College, Soniya worked as a Graduate Teaching Fellow/Adjunct in the Sociology department at Queens College for three years. Soniya's dissertation research examines responses to domestic violence in South Asian immigrant communities in the U.S., primarily during the post-9/11 “War on Terror," to further understandings of the management of social problems within neoliberal capitalism.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Scott Henkle has an MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and is currently pursuing a PhD in English Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he writes on image and text, graphic novels, politics and media, and failure generally. He has published non-fiction work in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Massachusetts Review, where he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and will be included in a forthcoming book on images and text. He has also published visual/textual work at Web Conjunctions (more of this sort can be found at scotthenkle.com). He lives, with his wife and sons, in Brooklyn.

Kamili Posey received a B.A. in Individualized Study from New York University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests focus on American pragmatism, social (and formal) epistemology, and philosophy of science. Kamili is currently writing her dissertation about trying to square philosophical assumptions concerning truth, objectivity and formal methodology in scientific inquiry with consensus-based lab practice. Prior to becoming an ITF, Kamili taught philosophy at Lehman College and the City College Center for Worker Education and served as a Communication Fellow at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College and as a Writing Fellow at Queensborough Community College.