Jessica Hammer

•  Jun 2010 
  Best Narrative, Come Out and Play game festival
•  May 2010 
  Semi-Finalist, Cooney Center Breakthroughs in Mobile Learning Competition
•  Jan 2010 
  National Network for IT-Research (ITU) Grant
•  Sep 2009 
  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Games for Health Grant
•  Sep 2009 
  Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Fellow
•  Apr 2007 
  Finalist, Iron Game Chef game design competition
•  Sep 2006 
  Ben D. Wood Grant
•  Apr 2006 
  Finalist, Iron Game Chef game design competition
•  Mar 2006 
  Winner, Mobile Game Mosh game design competition
•  Sep 2004 
  Spencer Research Training Grant

Jessica Hammer is a Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Fellow at Columbia University, a founding member of the Teachers College EGGPLANT game research laboratory and a member of the Creativity Research Group. She is the lead designer and researcher for the Advance game project, on which she is writing her dissertation. Her larger research interests include stories, games, communities, gender, creativity and learning. She also developed the game design course sequence for the Communications, Computing and Technology program at Teachers College Columbia University.

Before joining the department, Jessica worked as a writer, consultant and game designer with an emphasis on serious games and social software. She has taught at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, consulted for both academic and business clients, and worked at noted New York game company Gamelab. She received a masters degree in interactive telecommunications from NYU and her BA in computer science from Harvard University. In her free time, she runs an experimental storytelling group in New York City.