At Parsons, our faculty of leading artists, designers, and scholars lead change both in the classroom and in their industries. They work directly with you, building your skills and professional networks. And they develop new ways to make online learning productive and classroom communities close. On our Faculty Stories page, you can explore faculty accomplishments and projects with students.


David Carroll is associate professor of media design and former Director of the MFA Design and Technology graduate program at the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design at The New School. He is known for legally challenging Cambridge Analytica and related companies in the UK courts to recapture his 2016 voter profile using European data protection law. Featured in The Great Hack (2019) on Netflix, his data quest has appeared in WIRED, The Guardian, Motherboard, The Boston Review, Slate, Mother Jones, and the international press more widely. Formerly CEO of a failed tech startup backed by Hearst and incubated at NYC Media Lab and NY Media Center by IFP, Glossy visually organized digtial archives using machine learning and social content recommendation engines. This experience deep in industry helped form the basis of his research, legal efforts, and public engagement on data rights. His earlier scholarship on mobile media funded by research grants included support from Pearson Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Nokia Research Centers. He is active on Twitter @profcarrollThe Design and Technology programs at Parsons present Cloud Salon, a lecture series that invites artists, designers, technologists, and industry professionals to present projects and to engage in direct conversations with participants.This semester Cloud Salon will focus on featuring full-time faculty at The New School with a creative practice at the intersection of Design and Technology.

The Center for the American Experience invites you to join David Greenberg, Professor of History and Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, and Claire Bond Potter, Emerita Professor of Historical Studies at The New School, for a discussion of Greenberg’s new book, John Lewis: A Life. The book is a sweeping and analytically nuanced biography of one of the most enduring figures of the civil rights movement, situating Lewis as both a moral and political actor whose life reshaped the trajectory of American democracy.Drawing on extensive archival research and newly available sources, Greenberg traces Lewis’s journey from his youth in rural Alabama and early encounters with racial violence to his leadership in nonviolent protest and his decades in Congress. Attentive to the ethical discipline of nonviolence as well as the internal tensions of movement politics, the book offers a richly layered account of political commitment, illuminating the vision, courage, and persistence that defined Lewis’s lifelong struggle for justice.Described as “an authoritative and compelling portrait of a defining figure in American public life” by The New York Times, the book underscores the enduring relevance of Lewis’s legacy.

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will read from her new book, The Tao of K-drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World. She will be joined in conversation by a panel of people who helped her refine her understanding of K-drama. Aaron Bierstein, Leopolda Silvera, and Audrey Jenkins were students in Dr. Fullilove’s situation analysis class which focused on K-drama. Class discussions and thoughtful papers helped the group analyze and name the situations presented in the K-dramas Crash Landing on You and Our Blues. In turn, this helped Dr. Fullilove articulate the “Tao of K-drama,” the wisdom that these TV shows offer our troubled world. The panel will be facilitated by Adam Alghalith, a psychiatric resident at Mt. Sinai, who has done social psychiatry research electives with Dr. Fullilove. Dr. Algalith has a keen interest in K-drama and Korea and was able to visit the country last December. This is sure to be a lively and informative session, of interest to people interested in narrative medicine and global studies, as well as fans of K-drama.This event will be hybrid, please register for zoom here: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/meeting/register/stR63GqSS6S0LRwMjC5ycwAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Get introduced to TouchDesigner through your own images, video, and sound. Students will learn the basics of TouchDesigner’s node-based interface, import and manipulate their own media, experiment with visual effects, and explore how sound can be used to make visuals react and change in real time. No prior experience with TouchDesigner or creative coding is required.For more information about the Innovation Center Labs, visit InnovationCenter.newschool.edu and follow our Workshop Series Hub for upcoming programs, events, and workshops.

Join us for three days of incredible film and discussion as part of the Flaherty Film Seminar NYC Pod! The Flaherty Film Seminar is an internationally recognized forum for collective inquiry into the form and function of non-fiction cinema, fostering field-building dialogue, encouraging the exchange of cinematic ideas across generations and cultures, and promoting the expansion of the limits of cinema itself. The 71st Flaherty Film Seminar will be taking place this year in Marlboro, Vermont with films and discussions programmed from October 8 through October 10th. Our NYC Pod will take place simultaneously on the campus of The New School alongside several global Pods. After co-hosting the 70th anniversary Flaherty Seminar here last summer (along with Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film), The New School’s MA Media Studies is excited to be hosting this year’s NYC Pod. The seminar schedule is rigorous, with up to 3 screenings with discussions each day, punctuated by coffee and meal breaks. The NYC Pod is free and open to the public but space is limited, registration is required, and an honest effort to engage with the entire 3-day program is expected. Register at the link (to left) for the entire seminar (see schedule below).NYC Pod Schedule:DAY 1 - Thursday, Oct 8, 2026Starr Foundation Hall University Center, UL10263 Fifth Avenue 6:00 - 9:30 PM - Program 1 + discussion DAY 2 - Friday , Oct 9, 2026Starr Foundation Hall University Center, UL10263 Fifth Avenue12:00 - 1:30 PM - Program 21:30 - 2:00 PM - Coffee break 2:00 - 3:30 PM - Program 33:30 - 6:00 PM - Program 2+3 Discussion6:00 - 7:00 PM - Dinner break7:00 - 9:30 PM - Program 4 + discussion DAY 3 - Saturday , Oct 10, 2026Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, room N101Sheila C. Johnson Design Center66 Fifth Avenue 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Program 5 + discussion 2:30 - 4:00 PM - Break4:00 - 6:30 PM - Program 6 or 7 + discussionWhat to expect at the Flaherty Seminar: Gestures of RefusalThe Seminar is an exploratory experience that emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the organizers do not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the lights go down. Film notes and trigger warnings will be made available upon request to participants before each screening begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.About this year’s Seminar theme:Programmed by The Flaherty team, the 71st Flaherty Seminar will delve into images that resist disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure have buried beneath systems, structures, and the surfaces of images themselves. Through fragmentation, recollection, and archival intervention, this year’s program will explore how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed.
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