Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. Member of the Graduate Faculty. BS International Affairs, Georgetown University (1985); MS & PhD Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991). Author of Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games (University of Chicago, 2005). Co-founder of the blog Terra Nova.  Director of the Synthetic Worlds Initiative at Indiana University.  Developer of Arden: The World of William Shakespeare, an MMORPG funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Other activities: speaking, interviews, consulting.

Personal: married, two boys.

Hobbies: games of all kinds, and theater.