THE OPENCUNY BOARD
The OpenCUNY Board is elected by and from the OpenCUNY community each academic year. The board consists of six voting members: the two OpenCUNY Coordinators, and four Board Members. The primary task of the OpenCUNY Board is to develop and maintain the Terms of Participation that defines OpenCUNY.org’s governance policy and any other policies deemed appropriate by the Board.
2012-2013 Board Members:
JOHN BOY (Sociology)
a.k.a “jboy”
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John is a doctoral student in sociology working on religion and social theory. He’s been building web sites since his early teens and has been a free-software advocate for almost as long. He is a sustaining member of the SDF Public Access UNIX System. He also regularly contributes to The Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council’s award-winning blog on religion, secularism and the public sphere.
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CHRISTINA NADLER (Sociology)
a.k.a. “chrissy”
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Christina is a doctoral candidate in the sociology program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has taught at Hunter College and Brooklyn College since 2008. Some of the courses she has taught are Classical Sociological Theory, Social Networks, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of Family. For the 2011-12 school year she served as a Writing Fellow at Bronx Community College. Her areas of interest include cultural studies, science and technology, psychoanalytic theory, race, and queer theory. Her dissertation will take up the issue of matter and trace its relevance through different kinds of materialisms and immaterialisms, including the unconscious, bodies, objects, and technologies. She is a user of opencuny.org and a believer in open-source technologies.
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JARED SIMARD (Classics)
a.k.a. “canes”
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Jared Simard is a doctoral student who received his BA in Classics and History from the University of Pittsburgh (Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa). A previous Graduate Teaching Fellow, he is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Hunter College where he teaches Classical Mythology, The Greek and Latin Roots of English, and Roman Civilization. He has served on several of the Program standing committees. A former Co-Chair for Communications, he is a longtime representative on the Doctoral Students’ Council (DSC). He was an organizer and then co-chair for the 1st and 2nd annual student conferences respectively. Lastly, he takes great pleasure in serving as this year’s chair for the Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Group (CANES). He presented papers on Catullus during the 2010 CAAS and PAMLA annual meetings. He was recently awarded a grant from the Doctoral Student Research Grant Program Competition #7 to conduct an architectural sculpture and relief field survey of Manhattan. The data collected will become part of his larger digital archive of classical mythology in post-antique art, currently housed on the pilot website mappingmythology.com. His scholarly interests include Latin poetry and personification, mythology in the arts, reception studies, and digital humanities.
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SUZANNE TAMANG (Computer Science)
a.k.a. “stamang”
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Suzanne Tamang is a third-level doctoral candidate in the Computer Science program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation work involves the development of unsupervised learning methods for knowledge discovery using electronic health records as a case study. More broadly, her interests include data mining, machine learning, natural language processing and their translation into improved health and medical service delivery for vulnerable populations.
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PAST OPENCUNY BOARDS
2011-12
- JOHN BOY a.k.a “gcsoc” and “jboy” (Sociology)
- JEN GIESEKING a.k.a. “jgieseking” (Environmental Psychology)
- KIERSTEN GREENEa.k.a. “kgreene” (Urban Education)
- KEITH MIYAKE a.k.a “kmiyake” (Earth & Environmental Sciences/Geography)
2010-11
- JOHN BOY a.k.a “gcsoc” and “jboy” (Sociology)
- BORIS DAUSSÁ-PASTOR a.k.a. “bdaussa”(Theatre)
- JEN GIESEKING a.k.a. “jgieseking”(Environmental Psychology)
- KEITH MIYAKEa.k.a “kmiyake” (Earth & Environmental Sciences/Geography)
