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annual UC Irvine eSports Conference, 10 October. With Amanda L. L. Cullen
and Matthew Knutson. Also published in Conference Proceedings
2018 “Abandonware and the Preservation of Online Games.” Presented (and panel
organizer) at panel “Fanthropological Adaptations” at the 117
th
annual meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, 17 November.
2017 “Coercive Play: Questioning the Intersection of Values, Culture, and Design.”
Co-organized workshop with Nicole Crenshaw, Matt Knutson, Amanda Cullen,
Dan Gardner. Presented at Critical Games Studies Symposium, UC Irvine, 1 May.
2017 “The Branding and Censoring of a Queer Gaming Community.” Presented at
panel “Games and Community” at the Queerness and Games Conference,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1 April.
2016 “The Virtual is Material: Spatial and Social Realities of Virtual World
Infrastructure.” Presented at panel “Information Infrastructures: Materials,
Knowledge, Place” at the 115
th
annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, Minneapolis, 18 November.
2016 “Virtual Flesh: The Technical Modification of Queer Self-Presentation in World
of Warcraft.” Presented at panel “Nuanced Bodies” at the 8
th
annual
Anthropology in Transit Graduate Student Conference, UC Irvine, 1 April.
2015 “Identity and Community in Queer Online Gaming Spaces.” Presented at panel
“Who Are (Queer) Gamers?” at Queerness and Games Conference, UC Berkeley,
18 October.
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
2020-21 Graduate Student Researcher, “The Role of Emerging Virtual Cultures in the
Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission,” UC Irvine, Tom Boellstorff, PI
2019 Graduate Student Researcher, “How Can Digital Connections Support Mental
Wellness for Vulnerable Teens? A Synthesis of Research and Development of
Targeted Interventions,” Connected Learning Lab, UC Irvine, Mizuko Ito, PI
2017–18 Graduate Research Fellow, Technology, Law, and Society Graduate Fellowship
Program, UC Irvine, Bill Maurer/Mona Lynch, co-PIs
2016 Visiting Scholar, Stockholm Internet Research Group, Stockholm University
2015 Summer Research Assistant, Biology Education Research Group, UGA
2013–14 Full-time Research Assistant, Biology Education Research Group, UGA
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2020, 2021 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
2017–19 Anthropology Instructor, Summer Interdisciplinary Field Program, UGA
Course co-taught: Honors Introduction to Anthropology, three summer sessions
2014–17 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine