Caitlin Colban-Waldron

Caitlin Colban-Waldron (she/her) is an archivist in the Queens College Special Collections and Archives and an adjunct instructor in the Queens College School of Information Studies, where she teaches about archival practice.

 

 

 

 

David Goldberg

David Goldberg is a Lecturer and Director of Introductory Physics in the Department of Physics at Queens College, where he oversees the department’s introductory lecture and laboratory courses. An active member of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Dr. Goldberg’s work in Physics Education Research focuses on the implementation of research-based teaching practices to support effective classroom instruction. He applies these approaches across multiple instructional modalities, including HyFlex courses that allow students to participate either in person or remotely while maintaining an interactive, active-learning environment. His courses incorporate flipped classroom models, peer mentoring, and computational tools that help students visualize and analyze complex physical phenomena. Dr. Goldberg received his Ph.D. in Physics from the CUNY Graduate Center, where his research focused on resonant photonic structures.

S. E. Hackney

Dr. S.E. Hackney is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies at Queens College, CUNY. His research examines the intersections of librarianship and the history of computing with regards to digital text and information processing, and he does extensive work with community groups around information privacy and surveillance. His teaching and pedagogical practice focuses on the ethics of information work, and the shifting relationships between workers, institutions, and the communities they serve.

 

Heather Horton

Heather Horton (Ph.D., NYU Institute of Fine Arts) joined the Art Department in 2022, after teaching at Pratt Institute for eleven years and receiving the Distinguished Teacher Award there in 2022. She specializes in Renaissance Italy, but teaches across the Queens College curriculum. In courses such as Introduction to Art History I/II, Baroque and the Beginnings of Globalism, or graduate seminars, Horton’s courses emphasize cross-cultural analysis, artistic processes and techniques, and connections to our current moment.

 

 

Dara Laczniak

Professor Laczniak is a Doctoral Lecturer who teaches courses in planetary geology, mineralogy, science communication, and introductory physical geology. Her pedagogical approach aims to encourage student motivation and engagement in STEM courses by connecting class content to real-world issues, developing transferable skills, integrating creative assignments that leverage a range of popular communication modes, and emphasizing self-reflection as well as the process—rather than the product—of learning. As a planetary geologist by trade, her research uses returned samples and meteorites to understand how space weathering processes, including micrometeoroid impacts and solar wind irradiation, alter the chemistry, microstructure, and spectral signature of airless planetary bodies, like asteroids, the Moon, and Mercury.

 

Seth Lehman

Seth Lehman is a lecturer in mathematics within the SEEK program at Queens College and loves seeing his students develop resiliency and grit in their academic journey. Seth has completed three course curriculum revisions for the math department using OER materials.

 

 

 

Kate Menken

Kate Menken is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Queens College. She is Advocacy Co-Chair and Delegate of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. Her research interests include language education policy, bilingual education, and educational policies and practices for multilingual learners in the U.S. (especially in New York City). Further information can be found on her website: katemenken.org and Google scholar page.

Soniya Munshi

Soniya Munshi (she/they) is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CETLL) and an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College where she serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Asian American Community Studies minor and co-Director of QCAP. Their research and teaching interests include gender, health, and disability justice movements in immigrant communities of color, with a focus on liberatory and transformative approaches to violence and harm; autoethnography and memoir; creative and participatory research methodologies; and critical, feminist, and ethnic studies pedagogies.

Nick Normal

Nick Normal is an artist and maker. He collaborated on numerous “#ArtsTech” initiatives in the boroughs of New York City prior to joining Queens College, and also worked for Maker Faire, Make: Magazine, and Adafruit industries. He is currently Head of QC Makerspace, the hands-on learning lab in Rosenthal Library.

 

Daniel Stimpfle

Daniel Stimpfle is a recent graduate of the Queens College School of Library and Information Studies with an advanced certificate in archives and is currently a college assistant at the Queens College Music Library.

 

 

 

 

Tina Tam

Tina Tam is an administrative specialist who oversees library department operations including management in planning department activities, creating schedules, assisting staff, and preparing and delivering department communications. She manages the budget and coordinate purchasing, accounting, and payroll as well as work with appropriate offices related to personnel recruitment and expediting search activities.

Johnathan Thayer

Dr. Johnathan Thayer is an Associate Professor at the Queens College School of Information Studies, where he teaches courses on archival studies, public history, and community history. He has published two books with Palgrave Macmillan’s Global Studies in Social and Cultural Maritime History. His current book project, Preserving Modern Maritime New York City: Engaging Public History in New York Harbor, is in development with SUNY Press. His time at sea includes serving as a 38th Voyager on Mystic Seaport’s CHARLES W MORGAN, oral historian on the liberty ship JOHN W BROWN, and as Ship’s Librarian on SUNY Maritime College’s EMPIRE STATE VI.

Leila Walker

Leila Walker is the Humanities & Digital Scholarship Librarian and OER representative at Queens College. Her PhD is in English, and she taught in the English Department prior to joining the Library faculty in 2018. She publishes on OER, social justice, librarianship, Romantic literature, and the origins of climate change. Her work has been recognized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America’s Pforzheimer Research Grant (2021) and the Nineteenth Century Studies Association’s Emerging Scholars Award (Honorable Mention, 2022). She loves helping students and faculty explore research projects and develop innovative approaches to open pedagogy.

 

Emily Wilbourne

Emily Wilbourne is Director of the Aaron Copland School of Music and Professor of Musicology at Queens College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York. Her most recent book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford University Press, 2023), was the winner of the 2024 Judy Tsou Award from the American Musicological Society and of the 2025 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for the best book in Renaissance studies from the Renaissance Society of America.