HumanitiesX 2025 cohort announced

2025 HumanitiesX Fellows HumanitiesX, funded by the Mellon Foundation, is DePaul’s Experiential Humanities Collaborative. Professor Lisa Dush, Faculty Director of DePaul’s HumanitiesX program announced the 2025 HumanitiesX fellows. Matters at Play’s Professor Tran will expand her transformational game design and immigration games work by collaborating with Dr. Ramya Ramanath and their community partner, Sanctuary Working Group, to teach “Finding… Continue reading HumanitiesX 2025 cohort announced

Toma el Paso is featured as one of “50 Games for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice”

Book cover for "Learning, Education, and Games - Volume 4: 50 Games to Use for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice"

Lien Tran and Dr. Katherine Moran (St. Louis University) co-authored a double-blind, peer-reviewed chapter for the 4th edition of Learning, Education, & Games: 50 GAMES TO USE FOR INCLUSION, EQUITY, AND JUSTICE, published on January 23, 2024, by Carnegie Mellon University Press. The chapter features Tran’s game Toma el Paso as an educational resource on… Continue reading Toma el Paso is featured as one of “50 Games for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice”

Games for civics op ed published in New Thinking

Illustration by Nikki Muller (New Thinking magazine)

The majority of Americans know little about civics and government; video games could prove the unorthodox solution to our miseducation. This is the topic of Professor Lien Tran’s second op ed as a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project. On February 4, 2023, New Thinking magazine published her op ed entitled “The Game of Life: Leveraging Tech for Civics Education“. Educators… Continue reading Games for civics op ed published in New Thinking

Emerging technology’s role for telling critical Asian American history

Photo by Red Morley Hewitt

Professor Lien Tran is part of DePaul University’s 2022-23 The OpEd Project’s Public Voices fellowship. Professor Tran’s first op ed entitled “Lunar New Year Offers a Chance to Reflect on Asian American History“, was published in VISIBLE magazine ahead of Lunar New Year on January 22, 2023. In this op ed, Tran shares examples for how… Continue reading Emerging technology’s role for telling critical Asian American history