Luke Waltzer
Director

Luke Waltzer is the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he supports GC students in their teaching across the CUNY system and beyond, and works on a variety of pedagogical and digital projects. He previously was the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Baruch College. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the Graduate Center, serves as Director of Community Projects for the CUNY Academic Commons, is a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program and MA Program in Digital Humanities, and directs the CUNY Humanities Alliance. He serves on the editorial collective of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and has contributed essays to Matthew K. Gold’s Debates in the Digital Humanities and, with Thomas Harbison, to Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki’s Writing History in the Digital Age.

Marwa Answar
Program Coordinator

Marwa Answar is the Program Coordinator for the Teaching and Learning Center and Interactive Technology Pedagogy program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She supports the program’s mission of fostering inclusive and creative learning environments. She previously worked for LaGuardia Community College, for the Center For Teaching and Learning as an ePortfolio consultant, where she helped educators and students with integrating technology into their teaching and learning, promoting innovative pedagogical practices. She graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor’s degree in Human Biology. Outside of work, Marwa enjoys traveling and learning about different cultures.

Cristine Khan
Program Coordinator

Cristine Khan is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. She is interested in studying and researching the intersections of immigration, critical race theory, and education. Her current research centers on race and identity formation in the Indo-Caribbean community. Prior to beginning her program, Cristine worked at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs helping to create and implement educational programs for immigrant adult ESOL learners. She has taught and researched in the field of Intercultural Education and Sociology at the Institucion Universitaria Colombo Americana in Bogota, Colombia as both a full-time instructor and Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. She holds an MSc in International Migration and Social Cohesion from the University of Amsterdam and University College Dublin, and a BA in Sociology from Wesleyan University. Outside of academia, Cristine loves to travel, bike, explore the diversity of her hometown Queens, and spend time with her two cats. 

Luis Henao Uribe
Humanities Director

Luis Henao Uribe is a graduate of the Ph.D. program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His recent research explores the role of novels in the establishment of national imaginaries and the legitimization of theState in Mexico and Colombia. He also writes about how Latin American cultural objects circulate in the United States. He has been teaching both language and literature courses at CUNY since 2009, most recently at LaGuardia Community College as a Humanities Alliance Fellow.

Şule Aksoy
Research Associate/Post-Doctoral Fellow

Zach Muhlbauer
TLC Fellow

Zach Muhlbauer is a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research explores knowledge infrastructures of literacy and learning within the contemporary university, with a focus on platform politics and how educational technologies circumscribe literacy practices in and out of the classroom. Previously, he served as a digital pedagogy consultant in support of online writing courses at SUNY Geneseo. Since joining the CUNY Graduate Center, he has worked on digital projects that range from the CUNY Distance Learning Archive to the Discord Educational Toolkit. Currently, he teaches first-year writing courses at Baruch College, serves on the Editorial Collective of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, and acts as the Co-Coordinator for OpenCUNY, an open-source WordPress network run by and for GC students. His approach to teaching combines critical and social theories of learning with digital humanities pedagogy to foster community, collaboration, and reflective practice in his classes.

Ana Flavia Badue
TLC Fellow

Ana Flavia Badue is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Her research focuses on startups that develop digital technologies applied to industrial agriculture in Brazil, and she asks to what extent these technologies promote new iterations of extractivism and economic dependency. As a teacher, Ana has taught several interdisciplinary courses at a community college in Brazil. In New York City, she has taught anthropology courses at Baruch College. Student-centered approaches, feminist and liberation pedagogies have informed her teaching over the years.

Kristi Riley
TLC Fellow

Kristi Riley is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her studies focus on critical criminology, feminist theory, and popular culture. Her dissertation, currently titled “Breaking Glass, Making Prison: How carceral feminism shapes the prison nation” examines society’s political, economic, and cultural investments in carcerality in ways that are antithetical to feminist politics. She holds B.A.s in psychology and community studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Master’s of Science in conflict resolution from the University of Oregon Law School, and a Master’s of Philosophy in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center. Since joining the GC, she’s held fellowships with Humanities New York and the GC’s Center for the Humanities. Prior to becoming a Fellow with TLC, Kristi spent a decade working in criminal legal services, policy, research, and system reform.  She’s taught sociology and criminal justice courses at CUNY’s Borough of Manhattan Community College, Baruch College, and Hunter College.

Chandni Tariq
TLC Fellow

Chandni is a doctoral candidate in History at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is researching the legacy of African slavery across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds through monuments. She currently teaches at LaGuardia Community College. She also has experience teaching incarcerated people in a carceral setting. Her pedagogical approach emerges from her commitment to abolition and liberation. Outside of the classroom and dissertating, Chandni loves grocery shopping, cooking, and experimenting with food.

Jeff Voss
TLC Fellow

Jeff Voss is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has taught English composition at Brooklyn College and tutored as a WAC Fellow at Kingsborough Community College. He’s writing a dissertation focusing on the performances of Adrian Piper and Richard Pryor in the wake of the brutal suppression of 1960s black liberation struggles. Through Piper and Pryor his project attempts to trace how comedy and humor produce and disrupt gender relations, racialization, and bodily sensations by disarticulating the relationship between common sense and sense/s of humor. He approaches teaching with the sense that amidst the brutal and insufficient conditions of the University, the potential for radical alternatives always exists. The relationship between a student and a text can create openings to sense and enact these alternatives, especially if students are given the time, resources, and support to sit together in the struggle and joy that is reading.

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