Matthew K. Gold (he/him)

Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center

Matthew K. Gold is Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives and where he directs the M.A. Program in Digital Humanities and the M.S. Program in Data Analysis and Visualization. With Lauren F. Klein, he co-edits the Debates in the Digital Humanities book series from the University of Minnesota Press. His DH projects include Manifold, the CUNY Academic Commons, and Commons In A Box. He is Past President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Constituent Organization Board of the Association for Digital Humanities Organizations. His most recent book is Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, co-edited with Lauren F. Klein.

Luke Waltzer (he/him)

Director, Teaching and Learning Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Luke Waltzer directs the Teaching and Learning Center at the Graduate Center, where he supports graduate students in their teaching across the CUNY system and works on a variety of pedagogical and digital projects. He was previously the founding 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 Graduate Center’s Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program and MA Program in Digital Humanities, and co-directs the Mellon Foundation-funded CUNY Humanities Alliance.

Robin Miller (she/her/ella)

Open Educational Technology Specialist, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Robin Miller is an Open Educational Technology Specialist and a member of the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives team. She provides training and support for the digital publishing platform Manifold to the CUNY community and to Manifold users around the world. She is also part of the CUNY Open Press team and a former Open Educational Resources (OER) librarian.

Maura McCreight (she/her)

Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, CUNY Graduate Center

Maura McCreight is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York, with a focus on the history of photography and the Maghrib. She is currently a Manifold graduate fellow at The Graduate Center, a previous fellow for the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, and a grant recipient of the American Institute of Maghrib Studies (AIMS) award for research in Algeria. She teaches modern art, Islamic art, and photography history at Brooklyn College and the NYC College of Technology. Her dissertation argues that the ‘colonial media enterprise’ serves as a mechanism that drove both the FLN and the French Army to shape the creation and perpetuation of gendered symbolic categories during the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962). Her most recent work can be found in New Media Art 2022, published by CICA Press, and the Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES) journal.

Janelle Poe (she/ella)

PhD Student, English Dept. – CUNY Graduate Center and OER Fellow, TLC – CUNY City College

A multidisciplinary artist and educator, Janelle Poe is currently a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center whose research focuses on African Diaspora, Film and Media Studies. An Open Educational Resources fellow at the Teaching and Learning Center at CUNY City College, she believes in the global right to free, high-quality education and learning communities. With over 25 years of professional experience in educational, non-profit, and corporate environments, she is committed to leveraging skills, scholarship and creativity to activate equity, inclusion, diversity and well-being for all.