Summer Institute Presenters

Christina Katopodis, PhD, is Mellon Senior Research Associate at the City University of New York’s Humanities Alliance, currently pursuing research on the indispensable role of a humanities education. She is the former Associate Director of Transformative Learning in the Humanities and founder of Engaged & Ready, a project that empowers faculty with antiracist active learning tools to democratize their classrooms. She is the winner of the 2019 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching Prize and the 2018 Dewey Digital Teaching Award. She has authored or co-authored articles published in Chronicle of Higher Ed, English Language Notes, ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Hybrid Pedagogy, Inside Higher Ed, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, MLA’s Profession, Times Higher Ed, and Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts. With Cathy N. Davidson, Katopodis is co-author of The New College Classroom (Harvard University Press, 2022), winner of AAC&U’s 2023 Frederic W. Ness Book Award.