Instructional Technology Fellows (ITFs) are assigned to work with CHC Seminars 1-4. We work with students on using the Macaulay Eportfolio system as well as other technology applications in their coursework and academic life in general. ITFs are also Ph.D Candidates in the humanities and social sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. We are always glad to talk about our own research and scholarly interests with students.

Anton Borst is a PhD candidate in English at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He specializes in antebellum American literature and Romanticism and is completing a certificate in American Studies. Interested in the intersections of literature and science, he is currently exploring the impact of phrenology on Walt Whitman and mid-nineteenth century American culture for his dissertation. As an ITF Anton is based at Hunter College, where previously he taught literature and writing and also worked as a Writing Fellow. He served in the Peace Corps in Nepal after receiving his BA in English and the Program of Liberal Studies from the University of Notre Dame. 

Jesse Goldstein is working on his PhD in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work focuses on the history of capitalist socio-spatial relations, and his dissertation will focus specifically on waste, from agricultural wastelands to disposable consumer products, to current green invectives not to waste the planet that we all inhabit. Jesse is a founding member of the SpaceTime Research Collective and of the Historical Materialism New York organizing collective. Prior to arriving at CUNY, Jesse spent 5 years working as part of an art collective in Philadelphia called Space 1026, and he continues to work as a printmaker in his free time, often collaborating with members of the art collective JustSeeds. Prior to becoming an ITF, Jesse spent three years teaching sociology at Baruch. He has an MA in Politics from York University (Toronto) and a BA from Brown University.

Karen Gregory is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her interests are ethnography, contemporary social theory, and the sociology of labor. Her dissertation, entitled “Enchanted Entrepreneurs: The Labor of Psychics in New York City”, is an ethnographic account of the labor of alternative practitioners and is drawn from two years of work at an esoteric school in the city. Karen is an ITF at Hunter College and has worked as a Teaching and Learning Fellow in the Office of General Education at Queens College. Karen currently teaching Introduction to Labor Studies at Queens College. She is also a photographer and most recently collaborated with Patricia Clough to produce a photo essay and performance piece for the journal Subjectivity entitled “Playing and Praying to the Beat of a Child’s Metronome.” She enjoys karaoke and stand-up comedy and not-so-secretly dreams of writing a one-woman show about the role of negative emotions in women’s lives.

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.

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 Ph.D Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include postcolonial nationalism, globalization/transnational studies, and gender studies. She is also the co-chair of the Postcolonial Studies Group. Prior to being an ITF at Hunter College, Fiona previously taught literature and composition courses at Baruch and Queens Colleges as a Graduate Teaching Fellow.