Who We Are
Staff
- Marco Battistella, Web Developer
- Pennee Bender, Associate Director/Multimedia Producer
- Joshua Brown, Executive Director Emeritus
- Peter Mabli, Project Director, Online Programs
- David Scheckel, Administrator
- Donna Thompson Ray, Project Director, Faculty Development Programs
- Anne Valk, Executive Director
- Andrea Ades Vásquez, Associate Director/New Media Lab Managing Director (on leave 2020-2021)
ASHP Board of Directors
American Social History Productions, Inc. serves as our not-for-profit subsidiary and holds the copyright to all text, video, and multimedia materials produced by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. The officers and board members of ASHP, Inc. include:
- Carol Groneman, Professor of History Emerita, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, CUNY (Chair)
- Stephen Brier, Senior Academic Technology Officer; Professor, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education; Coordinator, Doctoral Certificate Program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy; Co-Director, New Media Lab, The Graduate Center, CUNY (President)
- Andrea Ades Vásquez, Associate Director/New Media Lab Managing Director, ASHP/CML (Vice President)
- Donna Thompson Ray, Project Director, Faculty Development Programs, ASHP/CML (Secretary)
- Pennee Bender, Associate Director/Multimedia Producer, ASHP/CML (Treasurer)
- Joshua Brown, Executive Director Emeritus, ASHP/CML
- Gerald Markowitz, Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Ellen Noonan, Director of the Archives and Public History Program, New York University
- Wendy Wolf, Senior Editor, Viking Press
- Peter Mabli, Project Director, Online Programs, ASHP/CML
Advisory Board
In 1990, the American Social History Project became an official research center at The City University of New York. ASHP/CML has been affiliated with The Graduate Center, The City University’s doctorate-granting institution, since 1996. Our advisory board includes:
- Sarah L. Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Art History Emerita, Indiana University
- Cynthia Copeland, Independent Public Historian
- Melinda L. de Jesús, Associate Professor of Diversity Studies and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts
- Vincent DiGirolamo, Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College, CUNY
- Gregory Downs, Professor of History, University of California, Davis
- Kate Fermoile, Director of Interpretation and Exhibitions, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Emeritus, Columbia University
- Joshua B. Freeman, Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Matthew K. Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Sarah M. Henry, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, The Museum of the City of New York
- David Jaffee (1954-2017), Professor of History, Department of History, Bard Graduate Center
- Cynthia Jones, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Hostos Community College, CUNY
- Nancy A. Hewitt, Professor of History and Women's Studies Emerita, Rutgers University
- Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, and Professor of African American Studies, University of California Los Angeles
- William Kornblum, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Michael O’Malley, Professor of History, George Mason University
- Brian Purnell, Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College
- Elena Razlogova, Associate Professor of History, Concordia University
- Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), Professor of History, George Mason University
- Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History, Princeton University
- John Kuo Wei Tchen, Clement A. Price Chair of Public History & Humanities and Director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, & the Modern Experience, Rutgers Unviersty—Newark
- Fritz Umbach, Assistant Professor of History, John Jay College, CUNY
- Philip Weinberg, Deputy Chief Academic Officer for the Division of Teaching & Learning, NYC Department of Education
- Craig Wilder, Barton L. Weller Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology