CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York

Who We Are

Project Team

  • Roxanne Shirazi

    Project Director

    Roxanne Shirazi is assistant professor and dissertation research librarian at the Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center.

  • Stephen Brier

    Lead Historian and Founding Co-Director

    Stephen Brier is professor emeritus, Urban Education, Digital Humanities, Liberal Studies, American Studies, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at CUNY Graduate Center and was the founding director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.

  • Marco Battistella

    Technology and Web Development

    Marco Battistella is the web developer for the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at CUNY Graduate Center.

  • Stephen Zweibel

    Technology and Web Development

    Stephen Zweibel is associate professor and digital scholarship librarian at the Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center.

  • Geraldine Araujo

    Research Assistant

    Geraldine Araujo is a master's student in international migration studies at CUNY Graduate Center.

Project Alumni

Founding Co-directors

  • Stephen Brier

    Founding Co-Director, 2014

  • Andrea Vasquez

    Founding Co-Director, 2014

Past Team Members

  • Chloe Smolarski

    Collections Coordinator, 2014–2021

  • Peter Mabli

    Permissions Manager and Cataloger

  • Julia Lipkins Stein

    Researcher and Writer

  • Johnathan Thayer

    Project Archivist

Contributors

Educator Resources
& Teaching Guides

  • Lucien Baskin

    OER Fellow, 2022–23

    Doctoral Student, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Gisely Colón López

    OER Fellow, 2022–23

    Doctoral Student, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Dasharah Green

    OER Fellow, 2023

    Doctoral Student, Ph.D. Program in English, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Noelle Mapes

    OER Fellow, 2023

    Doctoral Student, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center

  • Juliet Young

    OER Fellow, 2022

    Doctoral Student, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center

Librarian and Archivist
Collaborators

  • Ellen Belcher

    Associate Professor and Special Collections Librarian

    John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

  • Colleen Bradley-Sanders

    Associate Professor and College Archivist

    Brooklyn College, CUNY

  • William Casari

    Associate Professor and College Archivist

    Hostos Community College, CUNY

  • Scott Sheidlower

    Professor and Head of Circulation/Reserves/Archives

    York College, CUNY

  • Cynthia Tobar

    Associate Professor and Head of Archives

    Bronx Community College, CUNY

  • Johnathan Thayer

    Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

    Queens College, CUNY

  • Annie Tummino

    Assistant Professor and Head of Special Collections & Archives

    Queens College, CUNY

  • Sydney Van Nort

    Professor and Archivist

    City College of New York, CUNY

Collection Curators,
Researchers, & Writers