Ethan Watrall

Ethan Watrall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, an Assistant Professor at Matrix: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters & Social Sciences Online, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media  at Michigan State University.  Ethan also holds adjunct appointments in a wide variety of departments and programs at MSU including Museum Studies and American Studies.

In addition, Ethan is a Principal Investigator in the Games for Entertainment & Learning Lab, and co- founder of both the undergraduate Specialization and Game Design Development and the MA in Serious Game Design at Michigan State University.  Ethan’s primary area of research is in the domain of cultural heritage informatics, specifically serious games for cultural heritage learning, outreach, and engagement.

At Michigan State University, Ethan teaches in a wide variety of areas including cultural heritage informatics, user centered & user experience design, game design, serious game design, game studies, social history of popular culture, history of computers and computation, and ancient Egyptian social history & archaeology.

In addition to his academic work, Ethan has written numerous technical trade books for publishers such as Wiley, Sybex, and O’Reilly on interactive design and user centered/user experience design.

Ethan’s digital alter ego can be found at http://www.captainprimate.com.