- Professor Emeritus, Urban Education
- Professor Emeritus, Digital Humanities
- Professor Emeritus, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
- Professor Emeritus, American Studies
- Professor Emeritus, Liberal Studies
Research Interests
- U.S. education
- labor and social history
- digital humanities
- digital history
- educational technology
- digital pedagogy
Education
- Ph.D., U.S. History
- UCLA M.A., European History, UCLA
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As a professor in the Graduate Center Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, Stephen Brier taught courses on the history of public education. He founded the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the Graduate Center in 2002, served as its coordinator for 18 years, and designed and taught the program’s core courses and independent study program. He is a historian who has published widely on issues ranging from U.S. social and labor history and the history of public higher education to the uses of digital technologies and tools to improve academic teaching, learning, and research. He was the founding director of the Graduate Center American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, which he headed for 18 years, and was the executive producer of the project’s award-winning “Who Built America?” multimedia curriculum, including textbooks, videos, and CD-ROMs. He has co-produced other award-winning websites, including “History Matters,” the “September 11 Digital Archive,” and the “CUNY Digital History Archive.” He served for 11 years as a senior administrator at the Graduate Center, as the senior academic technology officer and the co-founder and co-director of the Graduate Center New Media Lab. He also taught labor history at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
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