EDUCATION

Ed.D., Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
M.L.S., Information and Library Science, Certificate in Archival Management, Pratt Institute.
M.A., Politics, New School for Social Research.
B.A., English, Hunter College.

BIO

Cynthia Tobar is an Associate Professor and Head of Archives at Bronx Community College, where she creates socially-engaged art programming, community-based archiving and storytelling projects that incubate spaces of culturally responsive memory-building to further advance community engagement with the Archives. She is also the library liaison for History and Archives. Cynthia is an artist, activist-scholar, and oral historian whose work centers participatory oral histories as modes for resistance and place-keeping.

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Access and Equity Issues in Higher Education; Socially-Engaged Artmaking; Communication of Memory in Archives, Libraries, & Museums; Public History Teaching & Learning Tools; Community-Based Oral Histories; Gentrification & Housing Justice; Documenting Social Movements & Student Activism; Counter-narratives of Historical Exclusion in Monument Culture.