curriculum vitae

EDUCATION | PUBLICATIONS | TEACHING | RESEARCH & CONSULTING | FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS | TALKS & PRESENTATIONS | ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

::: EDUCATION

The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (2004 – Present)
Doctoral Candidate Environmental Psychology Ph.D. Program, ABD. Interactive Technology & Pedagogy Certificate.
Dissertation: “MyDigitalFootprint.org: Informational Youth and the Securitization of Cyberspace.”
Committee: Cindi Katz (Chair), Michelle Fine, Joseph Glick, and Joan Greenbaum.

The Graduate Center of The City University of New York (2008)
Master of Philosophy in Environmental Psychology, with Distinction
Oral Exam Fields: The Cybercity as a Unit of Analysis, Theories of Identity and Democracy in the Cybercity, Modes of Governance and Education in the Cybercity.

Hunter College of The City University of New York (2007)
Master of Arts in Psychology
Thesis: “Campaign-casting and Commodified Participation: An Evaluation of Candidates’ Online Spaces in the 2005 NYC Mayoral Election.”

Marymount Manhattan College (2004)
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Cum Laude. Professional Certification in Industrial/Organizational Psychology

 

::: PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

  • Low, S.M., G.T. Donovan, and J. Gieseking. 2012 (Forthcoming). “Shoestring Democracy: Gated Condominiums and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York.” Journal of Urban Affairs.
  • Donovan, G.T. and C. Katz. 2009. “Cookie Monsters: Seeing Young People’s Hacking As Creative Practice.” Children, Youth and Environments 19(1): 198-223. Special issue on Children and Technological Environments, (eds. N. Freier and P. Kahn).
  • Donovan, G.T. 2007. “Repurposing the Square: Digital Symptoms of a Park’s Privatization.” The Urban Reinventors, Issue 1, June.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Low, S.M., G.T. Donovan, and J. Gieseking. 2012 (Forthcoming). “Gates not Walls as a Securitization Strategy: Gated Condominiums and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York.” in Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space (eds. M. Stephenson and L. Zanotti). Ashgate.

 

::: TEACHING ( MORE➧)

  • Central Instructional Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College CUNY, 2010-Present.
  • Adjunct Professor, “Cyber Psychology: Digital Media, Society, & the Self.” Psychology Department, Marymount Manhattan College. Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2012.
  • Guest Lecturer, “The Informational Environment.” Environmental Social Sciences, Prof. Roger Hart. CUNY Graduate Center, 2010, 2011.
  • Adjunct Professor, “Environmental Psychology.” Psychology Department, Marymount Manhattan College. Spring 2009, Spring 2010.
  • Guest Lecturer, “Producing Other Natures: Cyberspace.” Environmental Social Sciences, Prof. Cindi Katz. CUNY Graduate Center, 2009.
  • Guest Lecturer, “Seeing Hacking As Creative Practice.” Critical Perspectives in Media, Society and the Arts, Prof. Shaka McGlotten. SUNY Purchase, 2008, 2009.
  • Guest Lecturer, “Passive Park: Space, Communication and Citizen Power in Union Square Park.” Urban Design and Implementation, Prof. Elliot Maltby. Pratt Institute School of Architecture, 2008.
  • Instructional Technology Fellow, Macaulay Honors College CUNY, 2007-2010.
  • Adjunct Professor, “General Psychology: Social & Clinical Processes.” Psychology Department, Marymount Manhattan College. Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2010.
  • Adjunct Professor, “Social Psychology.” Psychology Department, Marymount Manhattan College. Fall 2006.

 

::: SELECTED RESEARCH & CONSULTING EXPERIENCE ( MORE➧)

  • Principal Investigator, Dissertation Research: “MyDigitalFootprint.org: Informational Youth and the Securitization of Cyberspace.” Environmental Psychology Program, Graduate Center CUNY. 2009-Present.
  • Social Media Consultant. 2010-Present.
    • Office of Career Planning and Development, Graduate Center CUNY. 2012.
    • Corporations and Health Watch. 2012.
    • American Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center CUNY. 2012.
    • The Mellon Interdisciplinary Committees, Graduate Center CUNY. 2011.
    • LaLa Land, Inc. 2011-12.
    • Circle Voting, Inc. 2010.
  • Educational Media Researcher. 2003-Present.
    • MediaKidz Research and Consulting. 2008-2012.
    • Sesame Workshop. 2003-2010.
    • Strategic Insight Research. 2006-2008.
    • Curious Pictures. 2005-2007.
    • The Michael Cohen Group. 2006.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Public Space Research Group: “Private Governance In Co-ops and Gated Communities in New York City.” The Center for Human Environments, Graduate Center CUNY. Principal Investigator: Setha Low. 2006-2008.
  • Technology and Literacy Specialist, Project Stretch. 2005-2007.
  • Co-Principal Investigator: “Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Why Reflection in New Media Research is Useful.” CUNY New Media Lab, Graduate Center CUNY. Principal Investigator: Joan Greenbaum. 2006-2007.
  • Research Assistant, Housing Environments Research Group. The Center for Human Environments, Graduate Center CUNY. 2005-2006.
  • Principal Investigator, Masters Thesis: “Content Analysis of Candidates’ Online Spaces in the 2005 NYC Mayoral Election.” Environmental Psychology Program, Graduate Center CUNY. 2005-2006.
  • Research Assistant, Youth Studies Research Group. The Center for Human Environments, Graduate Center CUNY. 2005.
  • Intellectual Property Researcher, CT Corsearch. 2004.

 

::: FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS

  • Participant, CUNY/Humboldt DAAD Summer School, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 2011.
  • Presidential Research Fund, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011.
  • Doctoral Student Research Grant (Competition #5), CUNY Graduate Center, 2010.
  • City University of New York Student Leadership Award, The Malave Leadership Academy, 2009-2010.
  • Participant, Surveillance and Empowerment Workshop, Vanderbilt University, 2009.
  • Sue Rosenberg Zalk Student Travel & Research Award, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006-09 (annually).
  • Participant, European Summer School on Internet Governance, St. Afra Academy, Germany, 2008.
  • Doctoral Student Research Grant (Competition #3), CUNY Graduate Center, 2008.
  • Fellowship, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007-08.
  • Participant, Young People, New Technology and Political Engagement Workshop, University of Surrey, UK, 2007.
  • Distinguished Honors for Second Doctoral Exam, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007.
  • Summer Resident, The CUNY New Media Lab, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006.
  • Lee Rivlin Travel Scholarship Fund, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006-11 (annually).
  • Fellowship, Stanton/Heiskell Telecommunications Center, CUNY Graduate Center, 2005-2006, 2006-2007.
  • University Fellowship, The City University of New York, 2004-07 (annually).
  • Student Research Award, Marymount Manhattan College, 2004.
  • Induction to Psy-Chi National Honor Society, Marymount Manhattan College, 2002.

 

::: INVITED TALKS & PRESENTATIONS

  • Donovan, G.T. 2010. “MyDigitalFootprint.org: Informational Youth and the Securitization of Cyberspace.” Interdisciplinary Conversations in Environmental Psychology. CUNY Graduate Center.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2010. “Two Cases of Digital Governance: MyDigitalFootprint.org and OpenCUNY.org.” The Norwegian eGovernment Delegation to the USA. The Roosevelt Hotel, New York.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2008. “What is Environmental Psychology,” and “The Social and Human Dimensions of the Urban Condition.” NUDA Summer School. The Nordic Urban Design Association, Norway.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2007. “Psychology and Social Justice.” The Psy-Chi National Honor Society’s Annual Introduction Ceremony. Marymount Manhattan College.

 

::: CONFERENCE PANELS & PRESENTATIONS

  • Donovan, G.T. 2011. “MyDigitalFootprint.org: Cyberspace, Surveillance, and Participatory Action Research with Young People.” Paper at Growing Up Policed: Surveilling Racialized Sexualities, New York.
  • Donovan, G.T., M. Galvan, K. Greene, B. Kimiagar, K. Miyake, J. Pipitone, D. Spataro, and M. Whitaker. 2011. “Fostering Student-Based Media: A Look at the OpenCUNY.org Academic Medium.” Panel: 10th Annual CUNY IT Conference. John Jay College CUNY, New York.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2011. “Untangling the Semantic Web: A PAR Approach to Cyberempowerment in Youth Environments.” Paper at Association of Internet Researchers, Seattle.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2011. “iLearn: Space, Time, and Social (Re)Production in Young People’s Informational Environments.” Paper at Association of American Geographers, Seattle.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2010. “The Medium as Message and Method: The Political Ecology of Cyberdominance in Youth Environments.” Paper at Technology as Method / Method as Technology Conference, CUNY Graduate Center.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2010. “Cyberdominance and the Digital Footprint: Young People as Objects of Domination and Subjects of Power in the Cybercity.” Paper at Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2009. “Towards a Topography of Young People’s informational Geographies.” Paper at 2nd International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2009. “I Spy Surveillance: Young People’s Environmental Consciousness in Cyberspace.” Paper at Surveillance Societies: What Price Security? Conference, New York.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2009. “Environmental (Un)consciousness: Engaging Young People’s Informational Geographies.” Paper at Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas.
  • Donovan, G.T., S. Graham, T. Harris, E. Johnson, and G. Kearnes. 2009. “Geopolitics and Insecurity II: Encountering Productions of State Security.” Panel: Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2008. “Whose Safety, Whose Security? Situating Young People in Cyberspace.” Paper at Internet Research 9.0 Conference, IT-Universitetet i København.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2008. “Passive Park: Space, Communication and Citizen Power in Union Square Park.” Paper at Association of American Geographers, Boston.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2008. “Digital Youth and Internet Governance.” Paper at European Summer School on Internet Governance, Meissen, Germany.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2007. “n3w $0Ci4l rE@l1+Y: Young People, Political Engagement and the Semantic Web.” Paper at Young People, New Technology and Political Engagement Conference, University of Surrey.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2007. “Shoestring Democracy: Private Governance in Co-ops and Gated Communities in New York City” (co-authors in absentia: Low, S.M., and J. Gieseking). Paper at 4th International Conference of the Private Urban Governance & Gated Communities Research Network, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2007. “Campaign-casting & Commodified Participation: An Evaluation of Candidates’ Online     Spaces in the 2005 NYC Election.” Paper at Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.
  • Aggarwal, S., J. Craine, G.T. Donovan, K. Erickson, C. Rosati, and M. Zook. 2007. “Being Virtually There: Roundtable on Virtual Methodologies.” Panel: Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.
  • Chawla, L., G. Donovan, J. Gieseking, R. Hart, Y. Hung, L. Rivlin, S. Saegert, and M. Theeman. 2007. “The Future of Environmental Psychology.” Panel: 2007 Environmental Psychology Conference, CUNY Graduate Center.
  • Davis, H., G.T. Donovan, J. Drouin, J. Griffith, I. Meisel, and J. Ugoretz. 2007. “The Instructional Technology Fellowship as a Model for Teaching and Learning.” Panel: 6th Annual CUNY IT Conference. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. New York.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2006. “Stereotypes and the Semantic Web.” Interactive Presentation at Live Feed. CUNY Graduate Center.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2006. “Repurposing the Square: Digital Symptoms of a Park’s Privatization.” Paper at The Transatlantic Graduate Research Program’s Divided Cities Conference, Columbia University.
  • Donovan, G.T., J. Greenbaum, K. Kermidas, and J. Merandy. 2006. “Expanding Learning Environments: Creative Use of Interactive Media.” Panel: 5th Annual CUNY IT Conference. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York.
  • Donovan, G.T. 2006. “Constructing Place Online: A Critical Look at How Cyberspace Was Used in the 2005 NYC Mayoral Election.” Paper at the Environmental Design Research Association Conference, Atlanta.
  • Bergeron, S.J., G.T. Donovan, M. McCalmont, and L.J. Rouse. 2006. “Unfiltered: Podcasting, Blogging and Knowledge Transmission.” Panel: Association of American Geographers, Chicago.
  • Chiu, C.H., A. Dean, G.T. Donovan, M. Downing, and D. Woodward. 2005. “Policy and Design for Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation 1968–1975.” Panel at the American Institute of Architects, New York.

 

::: ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Founder and Coordinator, OpenCUNY.org Academic Medium, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009-present.
  • Committee on Committees, Graduate Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009-present.
  • Information Technology Committee, Graduate Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008-present.
  • Founding Member, Space-Time Research Collective, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007-present.
  • At-Large Representative, The Doctoral Students Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007-present.
  • Article Reviewer, Surveillance & Society, 2010.
  • Curriculum Committee, Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009-2010.
  • Student Election Review Committee, The Doctoral Students’ Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009-10.
  • Steering Committee, Middle States Commission on Higher Education Accreditation Self-Study, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008-2010.
  • Search Committee, Vice President for Information Technology, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008-2009.
  • Search Committee, Associate Provost and Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center 2008-2009.
  • Search Committee, Associate Provost and Dean for Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008-2009.
  • Faculty/Student Disciplinary Panel, CUNY Graduate Center, 2008-2009.
    Guest Speaker, Graduate Student Orientation Assembly. CUNY Graduate Center, 2008.
  • Co-Chair for Student Affairs, The Doctoral Students’ Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007- 2009.
  • Media Board, The Doctoral Students Council, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007- 2010.
  • Executive Committee, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007-2009.
  • Program Representative, Graduate Council, CUNY Graduate Center. 2007-2009.
    Guest Speaker, Graduate Student Orientation Assembly. CUNY Graduate Center, 2007.
  • Article Reviewer, New Media & Society, 2007.
  • Academic Appeals Committee, Environmental Psychology Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006-2007.
  • Student Technology Fee Committee, CUNY Graduate Center, 2006-2010.
  • Article Reviewer, Children, Youth and Environments, 2006.
  • Article Reviewer, Conference Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association, 2005.
  • Admissions Committee, Environmental Psychology Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2004-2006.