Judd Ethan Ruggill

Judd Ethan Ruggill is an Associate Professor and founding Head of the Department of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona, where he joined in 2016 as part of the Computational Media Cluster initiative. He holds a PhD in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies from the University of Arizona (2005) and co-founded the Learning Games Initiative in 1999, a transdisciplinary research group focused on studying, teaching with, building, and archiving computer games. His research centers on mass media history, theory, and business, with particular emphasis on computer game technologies, play, and cultures.