Jill Belli received a B.A. in English & Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently pursuing an English Ph.D. at the CUNY Graduate Center. Jill's research interests center on Composition & Rhetoric and Utopian Studies, and she is also pursuing doctoral certificates in American Studies and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy. Before joining the Macaulay community as a Baruch ITF, Jill taught composition & literature courses at Baruch College and Queens College.

Lisa Brundage is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and holds an MA from the New School for Social Research. Prior to beginning work as an ITF at the College of Staten Island in 2005, Lisa was a CUNY Writing Fellow at Brooklyn College. She has also taught composition and literature at Brooklyn College and courses in women's studies at Hunter College, in addition to teaching after-school computer classes in New York City's public elementary schools. Lisa is currently writing her dissertation on the use of visual arts to explore tropes of gender, cosmopolitanism, and racial identity in the novels of Jean Rhys, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, and Jessie Fauset.

Chris Caruso is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center where he studies poverty, social movements, and new media. Prior to becoming an Instructional Technology Fellow, Chris taught Urban Studies at Queens College. He received his BA in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Chris has been training grassroots community organizers how to use information technology to promote human rights and end poverty for more than 13 years. He has trained dozens of community organizations, social movements, NGOs, trade unions, and foundations across the United States, as well as in Brazil, Canada, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand. Chris has been recognized as a "pioneer" in the grassroots use of the Internet and has received numerous grants and fellowships for his work combining technology, education, and anti-poverty organizing. He is currently a member of the Poverty Initiative.

Gregory Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology and a certificate candidate in Interactive Technology & Pedagogy at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He is an Instructional Technology Fellow for the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College and has previously held fellowships at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and The Stanton/Heiskell Center for Telecommunication Policy. Gregory has conducted research at the CUNY New Media Lab, the Public Space Research Group, the Youth Studies Research Group, and the Housing Environments Research Group. Additionally, he conducts research for several children's educational media groups, builds cyberspaces and currently serves as Co-Chair for Student Affairs of the Doctoral Students Council at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Lindsey Freer is a Ph.D. 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. She specializes in twentieth-century American poetry, and her dissertation examines the effects of Cold War political rhetoric on the composition of contemporary epic poems. Lindsey has taught writing and humanities courses at BMCC, York College, and the City College Center for Worker Education, as well as at Hofstra University. She recently served in the AmeriCorps national service program, where she developed and taught computer skills classes for recent immigrants seeking employment in the U.S.

Jen Gieseking is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She holds or has previously held fellowships at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Summer Institute for Geographers of Justice, Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Jen has conducted research at the Public Space Research Group and served as a CUNY Writing Fellow at Hunter College before beginning as an ITF there. Her research focuses on the production of lesbians' and queer women's everyday spaces and places, specifically how and why these spaces have changed and/or remained the same over generations in New York City and what this says about this group's shifting experiences of justice and oppression. 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 sociocultural production and private/public aspects of everyday spaces of identity around sexuality, gender, race, and class and over generations, the right to the city and the right to design and produce the city, cognitive and mental mapping methodologies, and feminist and queer pedagogy.

Jennifer is a doctoral candidate in music (composition) at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is this close to finishing her dissertation: she needs to make a table of contents and revise a few things. She tries to practice the piano everyday, but often does not succeed because there's so much else to do! (Most of it involving a laptop.) She sings jazz and writes a hybrid of new music--opera, chamber music, pop, and electroacoustic stuff. When not hiding in her room, she can be found at the Brooklyn College, the MHC lounge, or in the library putting the finishing touches on her dissertation which must be done by next year, period.

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.

Sam, a native of 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 (theology), and race. His dissertation explores the connections between religion and new (digital) media technologies. He is the author of Navigating Technomedia: Caught in the Web (2007) and editor (with Daniel Chaffee) of The Race of Time: A Charles Lemert Reader (2009).

Lynn Horridge received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Rhode Island and a Masters in Social Work from Boston University. She is currently a doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center where she is conducting research on gay and lesbian family forms and the adoption of non-biological children. Her research is driven by interests in political economy, medical anthropology, social inequality, geopolitics, biopower, and technoscience. She has taught English as a Second Language at National Taiwan University and various institutions in New York City. While at CUNY, she has taught courses in anthropology at Lehman College and has served as a Writing Fellow at LaGuardia Community College. Lynn takes a critical approach to the pedagogical uses of technology in the classroom, an interest she developed teaching in Taiwan and continues to pursue at the Macaulay Honors College.

Tsai-Shiou Hsieh is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she also got her M.Phil. 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 studies of pro-environmental behavior. Tsai-Shiou is writing her dissertation on contextual factors of urban recycling; her research explores people's experiences, attitudinal, and behavioral changes in environmental issues after relocating to another country. She grew up in Taipei and currently resides in Queens. Before becoming an Instructional Technology Fellow at Queens College, she worked as WAC Assessment Research and Educational Technologies Coordinator in 2007-2008, following her two years of Writing Fellow position at Queens College.

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 post-1945 American politics and literature of trauma.

Lauren Klein is a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research centers on the uses and representations of technology in nineteenth-century American literature. In previous incarnations, Lauren has worked as a software developer, music producer, adjunct professor, and bike messenger. In addition to her current role as a technology fellow, Lauren works as an educational technology consultant for various organizations, including One Laptop per Child. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard University.

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 doctoral student in the English program at CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include postcolonial nationalism in the age of globalization/transnationalism as well as affect and gender studies. She is also the co-chair of the Postcolonial Studies Group. Prior to being an ITF at Hunters College, Fiona previously taught literature and composition courses at Baruch and Queens Colleges as a Graduate Teaching Fellow.

Michael Porter is currently a student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. Michael's dissertation research examines the environmental justice implication of brownfield development and brownfield laws in New York City. He is the author of several articles published in peer-review journals and the co-editor of Spaces of Environmental Justice (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). Prior to returning to graduate school, Michael worked for 10 years as a software developer in New York City and San Francisco. He has a BA in history from Princeton University and a Masters in geography from Hunter College where he has taught courses on quantitative geography, GIS, and spatial data analysis.

Paul is pursuing a Ph.D. in music composition from the CUNY Graduate Center. Before beginning his work as an ITF at City College, Paul taught undergraduate and graduate courses in music at Queens College. He has written for instruments, film, electronics, and multimedia, and his works have been played at festivals, conferences, and concerts in the U.S. and abroad. His music often utilizes technology and new media and explores the relationships between people and machines. For more information, please visit www.paulriker.com.

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." Interdisciplinary work includes writing and instructional technology pedagogy, through which he developed with Prof. Magda Vasillov an online Art History Course that was implemented as part of the charter curriculum for the CUNY Online Baccalaureate. He has taught French Language courses at Hunter and York Colleges, was a Writing Fellow at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx, and a University Research Foundation Fellow in the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs. He is currently an Instructional Technology Fellow at Macaulay.

Meredith L. Theeman received her BA in Psychology and Elementary Education from Vassar College in 2001. After a year of working and backpacking, she moved to the UK where she earned an MSc in Environmental Psychology from the University of Surrey.

At the CUNY Graduate Center, Meredith is working towards a PhD in Environmental Psychology. Her work focuses on how people label and treat their changes in mood and behavior with an interest in the relationship between light exposure and well-being.

After many semesters of teaching at New York City College of Technology and City College, she spent two years as a Writing Fellow at Hunter College working closely with the Thomas Hunter Honors Program. Meredith looks forward to getting to know the Macaulay Honors College community this year.

Craig Willse is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and holds a BA in social sciences and gender studies from the New College of Florida. His dissertation, From Social Problems to Governance Problems: Health and Housing After the Welfare State, draws from political sociology, critical race theory, and science studies to document the production and management of housing needs under neoliberalism. Part of his dissertation research was published in a special issue of Surveillance & Society on inequality. He has also co-authored articles in Widener Law Review and Ephemera. He is the co-editor, with Patricia Clough, of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (forthcoming, Duke University Press). Prior to joining the Macaulay ITF team, Craig taught as an adjunct instructor at Hunter College and FIT, SUNY. In his spare time, you can find him biking around town and playing keyboards in the all-CUNY pop band, The Ballet.