Constance Steinkuehler

Constance Steinkuehler
Steinkuehler at the 2017 Game Developers Conference
Born	Constance Anne Steinkuehler
Fields	Education Game-based learning Literacy
Institutions	University of California, Irvine University of Wisconsin–Madison Office of Science and Technology Policy
Alma mater	University of Missouri, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Doctoral advisor	James Paul Gee
Known for	Game-based learning
Spouse	Kurt Squire

Constance Anne Steinkuehler is an American professor of education and game-based learning at the University of California–Irvine. Before coming to Irvine, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison From 2011 to 2012 she took public service leave and worked as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House Executive Office, advising on policy matters about video games and learning.

Steinkuehler graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, with three bachelor's degrees (mathematics, English, and religious studies) in 1993. After graduating she held a number of teaching jobs, including as a sign language instructor, a high school substitute teacher in the Jefferson City School District in Jefferson City, Missouri, and a chemistry grader at the University of Missouri.

She earned a master of science degree in educational psychology with a focus on cognitive science in 2000 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2005 she received her Ph.D. in literacy studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her doctoral thesis was on "Cognition & Learning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games". Her advisor was linguistics and literacy scholar James Paul Gee.