Constance Steinkuehler

Constance Steinkuehler (Squire) is an American professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before taking public service leave, from 2011-2012, to work as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House Executive Office, where she advised on policy matters about video games and digital media. After returning to academics, she and her partner Dr. Kurt Squire moved to University of California, Irvine where they continue to co-direct the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Center today.

Steinkuehler researches cognition, culture, and learning in multiplayer online video games. She is the Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) Center at UCI where she teaches courses on games and society, games as social platforms, research methods, and visual design. Her recent projects include mixed methods research on toxicity and extremism among adolescents in online games, teen reasoning about online disinformation, and cross-domain reviews of the impact of game innovations on adjacent and distal fields. She has published over 150 articles and book chapters including five special journal issues and two books. Provided by Wikipedia