hi all,
It’s my pleasure to announce the new DiGRA board of officers. We had all open seat nominations run unopposed (apart from the Student Officer position, which the two nominees agreed to share), and the Board has approved the slate. This is your incoming board:
President
William Huber
Vice President (continuing for one more year)
Christopher Paul
Secretary
Casey O’Donnell
Treasurer (appointed)
Jussi Holopainen
Open Seats
Sebastian Deterding
Rachel Kowert
Souvik Mukherjee (continuing for one more year)
Hanna Wirman (continuing for one more year)
Student Officers
Daniela De Angeli
Mahli-Ann Rakkomkaew Butt
Please join me in thanking them for their service to DiGRA and to game studies! And thanks to you for all of your support in the past- it’s been a pleasure to serve.
all the best,
Mia
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Mia Consalvo, Ph.D.
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design
Director, the mLab
Exec Board, Centre for Technoculture, Art & Games (TAG)
Author of Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Global Context, 2016, MIT Press
Co-author of Players and their Pets, 2015, U of Minnesota Press
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design
Director, the mLab
Exec Board, Centre for Technoculture, Art & Games (TAG)
Author of Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Global Context, 2016, MIT Press
Co-author of Players and their Pets, 2015, U of Minnesota Press