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Sarah Lynne Bowman is a scholar, game designer, and event organizer currently serving as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Game Design at Uppsala University. She received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Radio-TV-Film, and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in Arts and Humanities. As a founding member of the Transformative Play Initiative research group, Bowman's work focuses on the design practice of role-playing games as vehicles for personal social change. She has published extensively in both scholarly and popular media on the transformative power of role-playing, including her 2010 dissertation, 'Functions of Role-Playing Games: Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, Explore Identity,' published by McFarland Press. Additionally, she has served as the editor of the peer-reviewed journal 'International Journal of Role-Playing' and the Wyrd Con Companion Book, as well as contributing to the popular science magazine Nordiclarp.org. Her research interests center around leisure, educational, and therapeutic role-playing games, community building, conflict transformation, and the application of psychoanalytic theories to identity and role-playing.
Austin Community College • Austin, Texas
Coordinated the Peace & Conflict Studies program in the Interdisciplinary Studies department.
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