Lucas S.

Waltzer

Education
M.A. 2001, M.Phil 2004, Ph.D. 2009: American History
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Dissertation Title: “An Uneasy Idealism: The Reconstruction of American Adolescence from
World War II to the War on Poverty”
Advisor: David Nasaw

B.A. with High Honors, 1997: American Culture

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Professional Experience

• Project Manager for Digital Learning, Bernard L. Schwartz June 2008- Present
Communication Institute, Baruch College, City University of
New York
• City University of New York Writing Fellow, Baruch College Fall 2006-Spring 2008
• Instructional Technology Fellow, CUNY Honors College (now Fall 2003-Spring 2006
the Macauley Honors College)
• Durst Research Scholar Fall 1999-Summer 2003
The New Media Lab/American Social History Project

Research Experience

• 2007-2008: Writing Coach, Finance 4720, Zicklin School of 2007-2008

Business, Baruch College
• General Education Research Consultant, Teaching and Fall 2006-Summer 2007
Learning Center, John Jay College
• Consultant: Online Curriculum Development and Web Design Summer 2004
IAH 201 (core humanities course), Center for Integrative
Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University
• Graduate Student Researcher, September 11 Digital Archive, Summer 2002
Center for Media and Learning/American Social History
Project
• Research and Production Assistant/Web Programmer: Clio Summer 1998-Fall 1999
Inc., (Visualizing History)
• Research Assistant, Alex Kotlowitz, The Other Side of the River Spring 1996-Summer
(January 1998, Doubleday) 1997

Teaching Experience

• Adjunct Instructor, History Department, Montclair State Fall 2007

University
History 212: “US Social History”
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• Adjunct Instructor, History Department, Baruch College Fall 2002-Summer 2003

History 1005: “Modern American History, 1865-Present”
History 3460: “Topics in American History: Ethnicity and the
American Dream:

Presentations

• Speaker, “Blogs to the People: The Case of Blogs@Baruch,” May 2010

Computers & Writing 2010, Purdue University
• Speaker, “Online Publishing as WAC: The Case of May 2010
Blogs@Baruch,” WAC 2010 Conference, Indiana University
• Panelist, “CUNY WordCampEd and Beyond--The State of December 2009
WordPress at CUNY,” CUNY IT Conference, John Jay
College
• Presenter, Education Track, WordCampNYC, Baruch College, November 2009
New York, NY
• Conference Co-Organizer, Presenter, CUNY WordCampEd, May 2009
Macaulay Honors College, New York, NY
• Presenter, “Developing and Facilitating Small Group Faculty April 2009
Development Seminars,” CUNY WAC/WID Conference,
CUNY Graduate Center
• Panel Organizer/Chair, “Teaching with Blogs@Baruch,” Baruch March 2009
College Teaching & Technology Conference, Baruch College
• Speaker/Panel Organizer, “Powerful Paths to Learning: Open December 2008
Source Tools for Curricular Change” CUNY IT Conference,
John Jay College
• Lightning Talk, WordCampEd, George Mason University, November 2008
Fairfax, VA
• Speaker/Panel Organizer, “Web 2.0 and Distributed Learning,” May 2008
CUNY General Education Conference, Baruch College
• Speaker, “Blogging Across the Curriculum,” CUNY General May 2007
Education Conference, Queens College
• Speaker, “Blogging Across the Curriculum,” CUNY WAC/WID April 2007
Conference, Baruch College
• Speaker, “Open Source Tools at Baruch,” Baruch College April 2007
Teaching and Technology Conference, Baruch College
• Speaker, “Why Do All Students Get Laptops? Technology and April 2006
Community Building in the CUNY Honors College,” Northeast
Region of the National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Speaker, “People and Place: Studying Immigrant October 2005
Communities,” National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, St. Louis, MO.
• Speaker/Panel Organizer, “Technology and Community November 2004
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Building in the CUNY Honors College,” CUNY IT Conference,

John Jay College
• Presenter, “Virtual New York City," The New Media Classroom, Spring 2003
(for The American Social History Project), The Graduate
Center
• Editor, “Sidney Hook Reconsidered,” short film shown at start of November 2002
conference, “Sidney Hook Reconsidered: A Centennial
Celebration.” Also designed conference website. The
Graduate Center
• Speaker, “Felix Rohatyn: A New Yorker for New York,” The October 2002
Graduate Center Gala, The Graduate Center
• Presenter, “Virtual New York City,” CUNY Wired Conference, March 2002
The Graduate Center

Weblogs

• Architect and Administrator: Blogs@Baruch August 2008- Present

http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu
• Editor-in-Chief/Webmaster/Contributor: Cacophony: September 2006- Present
Conversations in Communication Across the Curriculum
http://cac.ophony.org

Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

• Mike Ribaudo Award for Innovation in Technology, City 2009
University of New York
• TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Excellence in 2008
Faculty Development (as member of Bernard L. Schwartz
Communication Institute)
• E.P. Thompson Dissertation Fellowship, Department of 2006-2007
History, CUNY Graduate Center
• CUNY Writing Fellowship Fall 2006-Spring 2008
• CUNY Doctoral Research Grant 2006
• Instructional Technology Fellowship, CUNY Honors College Fall 2003-Spring 2006
• University Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center 1999-2003

Service
• Community Advisor, CUNY Academic Commons 2009-Present
• Member, Web Site Committee, History Department, The 2006-2009
Graduate Center, CUNY
• Member, Search Committee for Assistant Vice President for Spring 2006
Information Technology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Graduate Student Mentor, CUNY Honors College History 2005-2006
Major Group
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• Webmaster, History Department, The Graduate Center, 2000-2005

CUNY, 2000-2005.

Skills
• Technological: Cross-platform computer proficiency. Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady,
Illustrator, and Acrobat; Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks, familiar with Flash;
Proficient with the Apple iLife Suite. Qualified to administer WordPress and Movable Type
installations. Proficient in HTML, XML, CSS; Experienced with MYSQL and PHP.
• Languages: Proficient in Spanish
• Pedagogy: training in Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, and Visual
Knowledge pedagogies; experience designing and implementing outcomes assessments.

References
• Available Upon Request