About

Dr. Stephen Brier is Senior Academic Technology Officer, Professor of Urban Education, and Coordinator of the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy doctoral certificate program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He co-founded and co-directs the college’s New Media Lab. He also co-conceived and is co-teaching the introductory course in the new MALS Digital Humanities track.
Brier is trained as a social historian and was the founding director of CUNY’s American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, where he co-created, co-produced and co-wrote the Project’s award-winning Who Built America? multimedia curriculum on U.S. history, which includes textbooks, videos, CD-ROMs and websites.