Claudia Calì (Aaron Copland School of Music)

Claudia Calì is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Queens College. Prior to her appointment as a tenure track Professor, Dr. Calì has also been on the faculty of Long Island University, the Juilliard School, New York University, the University of New Haven, Brooklyn College and Teachers College Columbia University. A native of Italy, Claudia Calì holds a Degree in Piano Performance from the Conservatory of Perugia, as well as degrees from the University of Perugia and the Catholic University of Milan. She earned her Doctorate in Music and Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focus is early childhood music education, with a special interest on family dynamics and the role of music in parent-child relationships—particularly within immigrant families and contexts of cultural adaptation. She has published in a variety of international academic journals, such as International journal of community music, Qualitative research in music education, the International journal of music in early childhood, the Journal of Popular Music Education, Research studies in music education and Arts Education Policy Review. In Italy, she is a co-author of a volume published by Edizioni Simone for the preparation of music teacher certification exams and has published with PM Edizioni and Libreria Musicale Italiana.

 

Caitlin Colban-Waldron (Graduate School of Library and Information Studies)

Caitlin Colban-Waldron (she/her) is a Queens College archivist and teaches courses about archives as an adjunct instructor in the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.

 

Nick Normal (QC Makerspace)

Nick Normal is an artist & maker. From St. Louis, he studied abroad at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, merging art & technology into his studio practice. Since moving to NYC, he’s worked for numerous “#ArtsTech” organizations including Dorkbot, Swimming Cities, & Location One, among others. He launched the education platform at Flux Factory, facilitating skill-sharing classes for the public. He worked for Maker Media, co-organizing 7 flagship Maker Faire events in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park at the NY Hall of Science, while also penning 85 ‘how-to’ project-articles for the company’s bi-monthly Make: magazine. He is the Head of QC Makerspace at Queens College and was a co-PI on NSF Award #1928565 “An Interdisciplinary Design Program: Incorporating Making and Design Thinking to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education.”

 

Lee Norton (English) 

Lee Norton is a Lecturer in the Queens College English department, where he also serves as the internship coordinator for undergraduate majors. As a member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective, he designs and edits books of poetry, experimental prose, and poetry in translation. He teaches courses in writing, literature, and the practicalities of editorial work.

 

Maria Pio (Godwin-Ternbach Museum at QC)

Maria Cristina Pio is the Co-Director and Director of Education and Administration at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. She also teaches as an adjunct instructor for the Seminar 1 course The Arts in NYC at Macaulay Honors College, Queens College.

Before joining the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Maria worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The College of New Rochelle. She currently serves as a contractual educator at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Queens College (2010), a Master of Arts in Art History from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in the Netherlands (2012), and a Master of Science in Education in Leadership in Museum Education from Bank Street College (2016).

 

Annie Tummino (QC Archives and Special Collections)

Annie Tummino (she/her) is Head of Special Collections and Archives in the Queens College Library. In the past, she worked as the Archivist at SUNY Maritime College and as a Project Archivist at Columbia University, Museum of the City of New York, and Queens Museum. She received her MLIS and Archives Certificate from Queens College in 2010.

 

Leila Walker (Rosenthal Library)

Leila Walker (she/her) is the Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian and an Assistant Professor in the Rosenthal Library where she oversees the Queens College Open Educational Resources Initiative. Her research interests include librarianship, OER, British Romanticism, pedagogy, and plant humanities. She held a Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015-2016, and she has been awarded a Pforzheimer Research Grant from the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Emerging Scholars Award (Honorable Mention) from the Nineteenth Century Studies Association. Her recent scholarship has been published in or is forthcoming from Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Essays in Romanticism, Studies in Romanticism, Hybrid Pedagogy, European Romantic Review, and elsewhere. She is currently finalizing a digital scholarly edition of Elizabeth Kent’s Flora Domestica (1823) for Romantic Circles.