Kenneth S. McAllister, PhD

Ken McAllister specializes in digital humanities, rhetorics of technology, and computer game studies. He has authored or co-authored six books, three edited collections, and dozens of articles and book chapters on media history, theory, and analysis. In his role as Co-Director of the Learning Games Initiative Research Archive — one of the largest publicly accessible collections of computer games and related material in the world — he has also published and lectured widely on the politics and processes of digital artifact archiving and preservation.

In addition to serving as the Associate Dean of Research & Program Innovation in the College of Humanities, Ken is Co-Chair of the Research Computing Governance Council's Data Visualization Committee, and is a founding partner of the UA iSpace, a campus-located maker lab accessible to all students, staff, and faculty interested in exploring immersive VR, augmented reality, 3D modeling and additive manufacturing, motion capture, Arduino and Raspberry Pi development, and other innovative tools for transdisciplinary scholars and teachers.