Steve Brier
Co-director, New Media Lab
Vice President for Information Technology and External Programs
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 8111.03
(212) 817-7290
Stephen Brier, the co-director of the New Media Lab, currently serves as the Vice President for Information Technology and External Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. Brier co-founded the American Social History Project in 1981 and served as its director until 1998. He co-authored and edited the Project's Who Built America? textbook, co-authored and co-created the WBA? CD-ROMs, and served as executive producer of the Project's ten-part WBA? video series. Brier also served as the Executive Director of the Graduate School's Center for Media and Learning from 1990 to 1998. He continues to serve as co-executive producer on several of the Center's ongoing new media projects, including the Lost Museum, the History Matters Web site, and the Images of the French Revolution CD-ROM and Web site.
Brier is a historian of the U.S. working class, with a particular interest in issues of race, class and ethnicity. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA. He has published a number of historical articles as well as several pieces on the impact of new technology on teaching and learning in scholarly journals.