Spencer Striker, PhD is Associate Professor of Digital Media Design at Northwestern Qatar. Striker’s work centers on interaction design, mobile media, digital media and learning, video games, and entrepreneurship. He is the creator of History Adventures, World of Characters—a fully interactive digital learning series that presents a fresh approach to history education—and Dr. Sara: Disease Detective, a mobile game about epidemiology. Striker holds a Ph.D. in Digital Media (School of Education) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a Master’s in New Media Production from Indiana University at Bloomington, and undergraduate degrees in Radio-TV-Film (B.S.) and History (B.A.) from the University of Texas at Austin.