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Hello there! I am back from holidays, which included an academic conference in Belgium. The paper i presented had to do with Chageling the Lost and caused quite a reaction, in part because most people did not have a firm grasp of what RPGs are.
It made me curious: are there any academics (at any level, including Phd Candidates of course) dealing with RPGs in their work? I am aware of some of the books out there (Fine, Bowman, Mackay) but i would love to get into contact with someone who is doing work on them now.

I am a PhD candidate gamer, but not looking at them for my idss. There is a guy in my department who is though! I don't know him well, but this is his public profile on the department page: http://anthropologyworldnews.tamu.edu/students/pages.php?ID=553

Thank you! This is great.