Academic Publications
Academic Publications
2026 “DnD and Disability: The Combat Wheelchair and the Unimaginability of Disability in Tabletop Roleplaying Games” (In Progress)
2026 “‘Just Friends Playing a Game’: Discursive Strategies in Critical Role’s Fandom.’ In How Do We Want to Do This?.” (In Press)
2022 “Casting as a Rhetorical Act: Color-Purposeful Casting and Hamilton’s Anti-White Casting Call.” In Rise Up: The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton, pp. 87-99. Lexington Books, 2022.
2021 “Metagaming Attention: Defining the Metagame Through the Economy of Attention on Twitch.” Popular Culture Studies Journal 9, no. 2 (2021): 55-68.
2021 Faas, A. J., Chelsea Halliwell, Ailea Merriam-Pigg, DeDe Patterson, and Jamieson Mockel. “From Applied Research to Participatory Action, Part I: Beyond the “Bucket Theory” of Community-Based Leadership.” Practicing Anthropology 43, no. 2 (2021): 4-9. (also available in Spanish, pp. 10-16)
2017 “A Study in Hoomanism: Understanding Meaning in Geek Philanthropy and Digital Ethnography.” Masters Project., San Jose State University, 2017.
2014 Banwait, Priya, and Ailea Merriam-Pigg. “‘No One Mourns the Wicked’: Evolving Perspectives on the Wicked Witch of the West.” In I Want to Do Bad Things: Modern Interpretations of Evil, pp. 121-133. Brill, 2014.
