Tom Boellstorff is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He's the author of many articles and the books, including Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, and A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia. He's a co-author of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method and Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie, and coeditor of Data, Now Bigger & Better!