Associate Professor Lisa Blankenship came to the academy after a ten-year career in industry as a creative director and writer. A member of the faculty in the Department of English since fall 2014, she began serving as Interim Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning in July 2023. She oversees the overall strategy of the CTL and has been involved in college and CUNY-wide conversations and initiatives to promote pedagogical excellence in all modes of instruction.(Read more)

Shiraz Biggie joined the CTL in 2021 and works primarily with Blogs@Baruch. She is PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center focusing on Jewish and Irish theatre. She teaches children’s literature in performance at Brooklyn College and theatrical history at NYU. (Read more)

Chris is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center who specializes in AIDS literature, queer theory, and memoir. At Baruch, Chris served as a 2020-21 Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Fellow and has taught First-Year Writing and Great Works of Literature since 2016. (Read more)

Lukasz is a doctoral candidate in history at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has taught at Brooklyn College, The Cooper Union and Queens College. He is currently a digital pedagogy specialist at the Baruch College Center for Teaching and Learning and was previously an instructional technology fellow at the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY. (Read more)

Seth Graves is a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center who specializes in writing studies, rhetoric, and digital pedagogy. He currently teaches composition and rhetoric at Baruch and creative writing at The New School and has taught as an adjunct instructor at several CUNY colleges since 2013. (Read more)

Catherine wears 2 hats at Baruch College: teaching-the-teachers how to create effective and engaging online classes, and for the past 5 years, teaching BPL, the senior capstone class in strategy and planning in the Zicklin School of Business. (Read more)

Amanda is an urban geographer, filmmaker, artist, designer, and organizer based in NYC. BFA in Fine Art and New Media from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her dissertation research explores young people’s experiences of growing up policed in NYC.. (Read more)

Hamad Sindhi is an educational sociologist working on his dissertation at the CUNY Graduate Center. At the CTL, he has assisted faculty with VOCAT, co-authored The CUNY 1969 project, helped evaluate the OER initiative, and consulted faculty on course and assignment design, specifically on how to include instructional technology in the classroom. (Read more)

Christopher comes to the CTL from his work on Blogs@Baruch as a Communication Fellow with the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute. He also has a history in higher ed tech support and server administration at NYU, the University of Minnesota, and Carleton College. He holds a PhD in Theatre from the Graduate Center. (Read more)

Craig Stone has supported Baruch College faculty members, staff, and students in the use of technology since 2011. At the CTL, he manages Vocat, a web platform that allows students and instructors to upload and interact with multimedia in various ways. Craig also works with instructors to help incorporate video and audio in their courses, including assignments, student presentations, lectures, and other course materials. (Read more)

Pamela is an historian of theatre design history whose current research focuses on European court performances during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In addition to a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from The Graduate Center, CUNY, she holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Script Development from Columbia University School of the Arts and a B.A. in Drama from New York University. (Read more)

Katherine has a joint background in information science and European history (she holds an M.L.S. from Queens College, CUNY and a Ph.D. from Yale University). She teaches and publishes about European history, Open Educational Resources in history and creating interactive tutorials. She was the OER Coordinator/Educational Technologist at York College from 2019 to 2021. (Read more)

Ron is a Digital Pedagogy Specialist with the CTL and also a Substitute Assistant Professor in Psychology here at Baruch College. Ron has had experience with online pedagogy from both a research perspective and a teaching perspective. (Read more)

With a B.A. in Psychology and Elementary Education Concentration, Alfred Waller started out as an Assistant Director for the Parkchester Baptist Church Summer Day Camp and Youth Developer for Girl Scout Council of Greater New York where he helped develop and implement recreational and educational programs for children ages 5-17. (Read more)