Community Learning Committee

Stephen Duncombe- stephen.duncombe@nyu.edu
media and cultural studies; history of mass media; history of consumerism; activist media and alternative culture

David Moore- david.moore@nyu.edu
anthropology of education, workplace culture; work reform and experiential learning; innovations in higher education

René Francisco Poitevin- rfp2@nyu.edu
urbanism; critical theory; race and ethnicity in the US; grassroots organizing; and geographical information systems (GIS)

Kim Phillips-Fein – kpf2@nyu.edu
history of economic thought; American economic and political history; economic policy; business and labor history

Jack Tchen- jack.tchen@nyu.edu
cross-cultural and community studies; New York City history; Asians in the Americas; race, colonialism, and museums; dialogic theory and radical pedagogy

Alejandro Velasco - av48@nyu.edu

history of modern Latin America; social movements; urban culture; democratization.

Faculty 
Eric Brettschneider - EBrettschneider@uwnyc.org
community building, advocacy, child welfare, the law and social welfare, parent involvement, and service integration

Laura Ciolkowski – lec5@nyu.edu
19th- and 20th-century literature and culture; critical theory; gender studies; travel literature; cultural studies; gender and technology; literature and the body

Maura Donnelly - mdonnelly2@yahoo.com
adult literacy and English for speakers of other languages; writing

Kathy Engel - ellajaja@aol.com
imagination, art and social change; communication, art, media and advocacy; building multi-racial cross-class, cross-generational organizations and campaigns; development and communications for organizations and campaigns

Jaime Martinez - jaime.martinez@nyu.edu

David Paskin- dpaskin@dc37.net
public sector labor relations; union organizing; social history of workers, technology and tools; New York city history; labor fiction

Mark Read- akawildman@gmail.com
documentary film; anti-capitalist struggles; media activism; science fiction film and literature; history of religions and religious philosophy; American literature

Aarti Shahani - aarti@familiesforfreedom.org
immigration and race in the Global North and South; deportation and policing; organizing and power; law and lawyering; and progressive media work

Ella Turenne – ella.turenne@nyu.edu
art and social change; activism; the prison industrial complex; caribbean arts and literature; theatre; public art; non-traditional social work; fundraising and development; black arts movemement; grassroots organizing; film