For George Mason University:
(Media contact 703-993-9277)

Tom Scheinfeldt is Managing Director of the September 11 Digital Archive and Assistant Director of the Center for History and New Media. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard and his master's and doctorate in Modern History from Oxford. His doctoral thesis examined the public role of science history in the inter-war period. His research interests include the history of popular science and the history of museums, and he has worked extensively in the fields of public history and museum studies.

Daniel J. Cohen is Associate Director of the September 11 Digital Archive, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, and a Fellow at the Center for History and New Media. He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton, his master's from Harvard, and his doctorate from Yale, where his dissertation explored the values and social motivations of the Victorian mathematicians who created the logical systems at the heart of modern digital technologies. His research interests are in European and American intellectual history as well as the history of science.

Roy Rosenzweig, co-principal investigator of The September 11 Digital Archive, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at George Mason University, and Executive Director of the Center for History and New Media. He is co-author, with Elizabeth Blackmar, of The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, which won several awards including the 1993 Historic Preservation Book Award and the 1993 Urban History Association Prize for Best Book on North American Urban History. He also co-authored, with David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, which has won prizes from the Center for Historic Preservation and the American Association for State and Local History. His other single-authored and collaborative works include Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920, the multimedia CD-ROM, Who Built America?, and edited volumes on history museums, history and the public, history teaching, oral history, and recent history.

T. Mills Kelly is the Associate Director of the Center for History and New Media and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History. He is a nationally recognized leader in the integration of new media into the history classroom and during the 1999-2000 academic year was Pew National Fellow with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Currently, he is a national fellow with the Visible Knowledge Project at Georgetown University. His conventional research focuses on nationalism in East Central Europe.

Marty Andolino works as a Web developer and system administrator at the Center for History and New Media. He received his bachelor's degree in Information Management and Technology from Syracuse University.

Joan Fragaszy is a project manager at the Center for History and New Media working on the September 11 Digital Archive and the Echo Project. She received her bachelor's degree in History and Latin from Indiana University, where she also studied art history and music. Her research interests are modern cultural and social history.

Jim Safley is an archive specialist and project associate for the Echo project and September 11 Digital Archive. He received his bachelor's degree in history from George Mason University. He has several years of experience working as an archivist for the National Archives and Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society. He is a recent winner of Phi Alpha Theta's Nels Andrew Cleven Founder's Award for his essay "George W. Norris and the New Deal: The Culmination of an Old Progressive." His research interests include American cultural and political history as well as traditional and digital archival principles and theories.

The Archive would also like to thank these former and temporary staff members: Jim Sparrow, Emily Bliss, Joel Censer, Tristan Swanson, Greg Goodale, Marguerite Hoyt, Dan Maxwell, and Chrissie Brodigan.

For City University of New York:
(Media contact 212-817-1964)

Greg ("Fritz") Umbach is Managing Director of The September 11 Digital Archive. Formerly an assistant professor of U.S. History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), he has directed several scholarly web database projects, including Gathered in Time: Utah Quilts and Their Makers, Settlement to 1950. He received his Ph.D. in American History from Cornell University, and was the recipient of the John M. and Emily B. Clark Distinguished Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Science. He has published on the history police brutality, gender and poultry production (really), and other topics in American Culture.

Pennee Bender is Associate Director and Media Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has worked in broadcast and educational media for over fifteen years as a multimedia and video producer, director and editor. She was Producer/Director of Struggles for Justice, an interactive laserdisk published by Scholastic, Inc. Her film and video credits include: Savage Acts: Wars, Fairs and Empire; Up South; Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl; The West Bank: Whose Promised Land; Bitter Cane; Missing Persons/ Personas Ausentes; and Labor Produces. She was a founding member of the Paper Tiger Public Access Video Collective and is currently a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective. She received a Ph.D. in American History at New York University, writing a dissertation on government use of film in its foreign policy with Latin America during World War II. She teaches working women's history at the Cornell Institute for Industrial and Labor Relations and has taught history and media production to students from elementary school through college levels.

Stephen Brier is the Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and External Programs for The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Co-Director of GC's New Media Lab. 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 is a historian of the U.S. working class, with a particular interest in issues of race, class and ethnicity, and a member of the GC's doctoral faculty in Urban Education. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA and has published widely in text, video, and various forms of multimedia on issues from U.S. history to the uses of interactive technology to improve teaching and learning.

Joshua Brown, co-principal investigator of The September 11 Digital Archive, is Executive Director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center as well as Co-Director of GC's New Media Lab. As ASHP's Creative Director from 1981 to 1998, he co-wrote and directed the art of the Who Built America? documentary series, CD-ROMs, and textbooks. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Columbia University and is author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (University of California Press, 2002) and The Hungry Eye, a serialized online historical novel about 19th-century New York; co-editor of History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices (1993); and he has written numerous essays and reviews on the visualization of the past. His cartoons and illustrations have appeared in popular and scholarly publications as well as digital media.

Ellen Noonan is a media producer and historian working on American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning's latest multimedia projects: History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web and The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum American Life and Culture. Previously she designed and coordinated ASHP's Goals 2000 program, which assisted New York City high school humanities teachers with integrating technology, social history, and student-centered pedagogy into their teaching. She is also a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective. She received a Ph.D. in American history from New York University, her dissertation focusing on the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess and the politics of race in twentieth-century America. Ellen is also co-author, with Karl Hagstrom Miller and John Spencer, of The Hardhat Riots: An Online History Project.

Andrea Ades Vasquez is a media producer at the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and Managing Director of The Graduate Center's New Media Lab. She is currently working as a project director and producer of The Lost Museum Web site, which includes creating site art and design. Her ASHP/CML work has also included research for the WBA? textbook; writing and audiovisual production for the WBA? CD-ROMs; work on the latest ASHP videos including cowriter and producer of Up South; co-director and artist of Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl and Savage Acts; and artist and designer of the History Matters, Heaven and New Media Lab Web sites.