Generative AI in the Classroom Faculty Fellows (2024-2025)

Soniya Munshi

CETLL and Urban Studies (Facilitator)

Dr. Soniya Munshi is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership and an Associate Professor of Urban Studies. She brings two decades of experience working with critical, feminist, and ethnic studies pedagogies. Dr. Munshi has designed and led faculty development seminars, trainings, and workshops that take up questions of belonging, equity, and justice in educational contexts as well as supported faculty with instructional technologies, open educational resources, and related pedagogical needs.

Lindsey Albracht

English

Lindsey Albracht (she/her/hers) works as the Co-Director of First-Year Writing and Part-Time Instruction and a Lecturer in the Queens College English department. She also serves as the four-year co-chair of the CUNY Writing Discipline Council. Both her research and teaching focus on literacy, composition, and the teaching of writing.

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Ashlyn Cavitt

Design

Ashlyn Stewart Cavitt is a graphic designer and art director at The New York Times, where she leads creative campaigns focused on experiential marketing and brand engagement. Committed to design education and mentorship, she teaches Advertising Design as an adjunct professor at CUNY Queens College and previously served as Program Lead for the AIGA NY Mentorship Program.

Emily Drabinski

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

Professor Drabinski’s research is embedded in critical librarianship, an area of research and practice that engages questions of power and the history, present, and future of libraries. I have long been interested in the intersections of critical theory and knowledge organization, particularly in the classification and description from a queer theoretical perspective.

Brandon Jeffries

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

Professor Jeffries brings resources, best practices and learned experiences to the students at Queens College Graduate Library Science Program.  Leveraging over 17 years of experience in the nonprofit industry including but not limited to: facilitation, direct service, management and executive management in Queens, New York.  Professional development, stewardship and career guidance are aspects that I take pride in incorporating into workforce environments while implementing library resources, processes and standards that can support both organization and community next steps.  My academic approach reinforces rigor through project based assignments and research principles.

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Robin Naughton

Library

Professor Naughton is an experienced user-centered researcher, technologist, digital librarian, and educator with over 20 years of experience designing, developing, and managing interactive products throughout all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and across multiple platforms (web, mobile, tablet, interactive whiteboard, etc.), including online courses created for public and state libraries, the transition of print to eBooks, interactive whiteboard products for students and teachers learning and teaching English, and elearning courses for test preparation. Her research focuses on human-computer interaction (HCI) and mental models, specifically how to design interactive systems that are useful, easy to use, and enjoyable.

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Joshua Rogers

Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages
and Cultures

Professor Rogers teaches Japanese literature and cinema. Their research situates Japanese writers within early twentieth-century discourse on science and religion. Many influential Japanese writers critiqued religious and supernatural beliefs, while also rejecting aspects of mainstream science. Skeptical of materialism while also anti-religious, these writers worked to conceptualize non-rational forms of knowledge, intuition, and sublime experience. Joshua’s work identifies the impact of this discursive movement on the formation of Japanese literature, philosophy, and politics.

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Holly Weisberg

Psychology

Professor Weisberg is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and New York State Licensed Behavior Analyst. Clinically, she has worked with individuals ranging from 3-70 years old across home, school, community, and workplace settings. Dr. Weisberg’s research has included applications of behavior analysis to teach social and communication skills to children with autism. She has almost a decade of experience in teaching undergraduate psychology courses at CUNY colleges.

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General Education Faculty Fellows (Fall 2024)

Amy Wan

English (Facilitator)

Amy J. Wan (she/her) is Professor of English at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on writing, literacy, and pedagogy and is the author of Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (Pittsburgh, 2014). She is the recipient of the CCCC Braddock Award (2023) and the Richard Ohmann Award (2012). Her current project analyzes how to create spaces for change and resistance within the global US university through a historical and contemporary study of policies addressing access, diversity, race, and language. She is also the co-PI for a $1.7 million U.S. Department of Education AANAPISI grant awarded to Queens College in 2022.

Yu Chen

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Professor Chen’s research interest includes transition metal catalysis, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, and heterocyclic chemistry. The development of new chemical reactions mediated by transition metals is currently one of the main goals of Chen Group. The group is particularly interested in palladium, gold, and iron catalyzed cascade reactions. The late transition metal catalyzed asymmetric synthesis is another major research topic of the Chen group. The group is committed to designing and preparing new ligands with axial or facial chirality for efficient and highly stereoselective transition metal catalysis.

Robin Hizme

English

Robin Hizme teaches literature and writing classes in the English and Middle Eastern Studies departments at Queens College, CUNY, where she oversees the Honors in the Humanities curriculum for the Bridge Year between Townsend Harris High School and Queens College. Her learning activities are designed to empower students as critical thinkers, writers, and change agents by honing analytical skills and exploring diverse perspectives. Current projects include collaborative teaching and learning across international borders as well as writing about legacies of generational trauma on individual development and communal identity narratives.

Christine Ramadhin

School of Earth & Environmental Sciences Professor Ramadhin teaches Introductory Environmental Science courses and an advanced course on Building Climate Resilience. Her teaching philosophy centers on creating dynamic and inclusive learning experiences that ignite student curiosity and develop a mindset of inquiry. By connecting course concepts to real-world challenges and encouraging students to explore interdisciplinary approaches, Professor Ramadhin inspires learners to discover and share their unique strengths and interests. Through fostering a collaborative and supportive learning community, she hopes to empower students to engage deeply, think critically, and apply their knowledge to drive meaningful change.

Oren Steinberg

Computer Science

Oren Steinberg is a lecturer of Computer Science. He teaches Data Structures, Database Systems, and Intro to Algorithmic Problem Solving.