Judd Ruggill

Department head and professor, Public & Applied Humanities

Judd Ruggill joined the University of Arizona in 2016 as part of the Computational Media Cluster initiative, led the creation of the Center for Digital Humanities, and in 2017 became the founding Head of the Department of Public & Applied Humanities. From 2008-2016, he was a faculty member in the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University and a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of English, the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.

He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies from the University of Arizona (2005/2000), a BA in English/American Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1994), and he and colleague Ken McAllister co-direct the Learning Games Initiative, a transdisciplinary, inter-institutional research group they founded in 1999 to study, teach with, build, and archive computer games.