The New College Classroom

Christina Katopodis, PhD, is a Postdoctoral
Research Associate and the Associate Director of Transformative
Learning in the Humanities, a three-year initiative at the City
University of New York (CUNY) supported by the Mellon Foundation.
She is the winner of the 2019 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching
Prize and the 2018 Dewey Digital Teaching Award. She has authored
or co-authored articles published in ESQ: A Journal of
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, MLA’s
Profession, Hybrid Pedagogy, Inside Higher Ed, Synapsis, and
Times Higher Ed.


The learning process is something you can incite, really incite,
like a riot. - Audre Lorde


Cathy N. Davidson is the Senior Advisor on
Transformation to the Chancellor of the City University of New
York (CUNY), a role which includes work with all twenty-five
campuses serving over 500,000 students. She is also the Founding
Director of the Futures Initiative and Distinguished Professor of
English, as well as the M.A. in Digital Humanities and the M.S.
in Data Analysis and Visualization programs at the Graduate
Center (CUNY). The author or editor of over twenty books, she has
taught at a range of institutions, from community college to the
Ivy League. She held two distinguished professor chairs at Duke
University, where she taught for twenty-five years and also
became the university’s (and the nation’s) first Vice Provost for
Interdisciplinary Studies. She is cofounder and codirector of
“the world’s first and oldest academic social network,” the
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and
Collaboratory (HASTAC.org, known as “Haystack”). Founded in 2002,
HASTAC has over 18,000 network members.


Davidson’s many prizewinning books include the classics
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America and
Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (with
photographer Bill Bamberger). Most recently, she has concentrated
on the science of learning in the “How We Know” Trilogy: Now You
See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way
We Live, Work, and Learn; The New Education: How to Revolutionize
the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux; and,
co-authored with Christina Katopodis, The New College Classroom
(due August 2022).


Davidson has won many awards, prizes, and grants throughout her
career including from the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, NEH, NSF,
the MacArthur Foundation, and others. She is the 2016 recipient
of the Ernest L. Boyer Award for “significant contributions to
higher education.” She received the Educator of the Year Award
(2012) from the World Technology Network and, in 2021, the
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences presented Davidson with
its annual Arts and Sciences Advocacy Award. She has served on
the board of directors of Mozilla, was appointed by President
Barack Obama to the National Council on the Humanities, and has
twice keynoted the Nobel Prize Committee’s Forum on the Future of
Learning. She lives in New York City.


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