Key Teaching Staff
Lindsay Grace
School: American UniversityField of Teaching: Associate Professor, Director, American University Game Lab and Studio
Website Reference: http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/grace.cfm
Major Achievements: Lindsay Grace is a professor, game designer and researcher. He directs the AU Game Lab and Studio. His game designs have received awards and recognition from the Games for Change Festival, Meaningful Play Conference , ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community and others. He has published more than 25 papers, articles and book chapters on games in the last 5 years. His creative work has been selected for showcase in more than seven countries and 12 states. Lindsay’s career includes teaching 81 courses over 10 years and more than 30+ presentations in Asia, the Americas and Europe. As the former Armstrong Professor at Miami University, he lead a top 25 game design program as ranked by Princeton Review. There he also founded the Persuasive Play Lab, a studio and research group for the production and analysis of games to change people’s interests, activities and opinions. In 2013 his game, Wait, was selected for the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival’s Hall of Fame, as one of the 5 best games for social impact in the last decade. Lindsay has served industry as an independent consultant, web designer, software developer, entrepreneur, business analyst and writer.
