Luke Waltzer: Historian | Educational Technologist

I’m a historian and educational technologist employed as the Project Manager for Digital Learning at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College.  My primary responsibility is to manage Blogs@Baruch, a publishing platform for the Baruch College community built on WordPress MultiUser.  I help faculty, students, and administrators meet their pedagogical and self-publishing goals with WordPress.  I also advise the Fellows and staff at the Schwartz Institute on the uses of instructional technology in higher education; edit and write regularly for Cac.ophony.org, the Institute’s group weblog; and share and discuss our work at the intersection of edtech and communication across the curriculum with an international community of students and teachers.

I hold a Ph.D. in American History from the CUNY Graduate Center, have taught courses in American social and cultural history at Baruch College and Montclair State University, and mentored History Majors while an Instructional Technology Fellow at the Macaulay Honors College.  My research on the social, political, and ideological construction of adolescence in the middle of the Twentieth Century culminated in a dissertation entitled “An Uneasy Idealism: The Reconstruction of American Adolescence from World War II to the War on Poverty.”

Back in the halcyon days of Web 1.0, I worked with the American Social History Project at the New Media Lab, as the Durst Research Scholar, where I built Virtual New York City.  I’ve also worked as a researcher for the author Alex Kotlowitz, the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, for Clio, Inc. (Visualizing History), and for the General Education Task Force at John Jay College.

This is my personal site, and is unaffiliated with the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, or the City University of New York.  In the “Blogging” section of this site I have republished blog posts that originally appeared in other locations.

I can be reached at lwaltzer@gmail.com.