Part-time Assistant Professor – online faculty | 2004- present
member ACT-UAW, Local 7902 | Adjuncts Coming Together/United Auto Workers – annual contract
The New School for Public Engagement | School of Media Studies, New York
current courses
Sound Culture (graduate seminar, launched 2007)
Sonic Narratives (graduate studio, launched 2005, various course titles, including Radio Experiments)
Media, Nature & Apocalypse (undergraduate seminar/2013-2015; 2025-present)
previous courses | graduate + undergraduate
Narratives in Sound (summer graduate intensive, 2007-2024)
Listening In: The History of Radio (undergraduate, 2005-2025)
Creative Radio: Media Practice (undergraduate, 2004-2012)
Radio Rebels: Culture of Podcasting (undergraduate/summer, 2007-2008)
awards + grants
2017 | Semi-Finalist, Distinguished University Teaching Award, Provost Office
One of 13 semi-finalists out of 189 nominations and 2000 New School faculty. Recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award demonstrate sustained excellence in teaching, exemplifying The New School’s mission: to prepare students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place.
2010 | Sloan Foundation Grant
Semester-long online technologies and pedagogy workshop, spring, 2010; invitation to develop new courses; subsequently led to Media Ecologies (2010) and Media, Nature & Apocalypse (2013, 2014, 2015)
2008 | Part-time faculty Development Fund
Travel grant to attend Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago, Oct. 2008
additional teaching activity
2012-present | Principal & Secondary Thesis Advisor
Work closely with graduate students applying theory to media practice culminating in their MA thesis (not a requirement of the MA degree; these students take on extra credits and advisors guide and mentor them throughout their thesis semesters).
2006-present | Prior Learning Evaluator
Review and grant undergraduate course credits for students seeking application of work-related and/or field experience
2006-present | Independent Study Instructor (2006-2015)
Guidance of graduate/undergraduate students producing radio projects for production credit courses
