Participant Info
- First Name
- Anne Ladyem
- Last Name
- McDivitt
- Country
- United States
- State
- AL Alabama
- anneladyemmcdivitt@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- University of Alabama
- Website URL
- anneladyem.com
- Keywords
- Video Games, Gaming, Video Games, Gender, Arcades, Video Game History, Women in Games, Game History, Technology, History of Technology, Public History, Digital History, Digital Humanities, Libraries
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Anne Ladyem McDivitt is the Digital Humanities Librarian for the University of Alabama Libraries. She assists faculty and graduate students in creating digital projects at the University, as well as facilitating digital pedagogy in the form of tools and workshops. Her personal research is on the history of the video game industry in the 1970s and 1980s, with a particular interest in gender. She received her PhD in History with a minor in Digital History from George Mason University and her MA in Public History from the University of Central Florida. In her free time, she plays video games and co-hosts a podcast about video games, anime, and manga. You can follow her on Twitter @anneladyem or on her blog at anneladyem.com.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- https://gamasutra.com/view/news/336001/The_history_of_how_PacMan_encouraged_women_to_pursue_game_dev.php, https://qz.com/1601667/the-microsoft-xbox-one-s-will-kill-retro-gaming-culture/
- Social Media
- @anneladyem
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Computational, Gender, Higher Ed, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Technology, Women
