SOCIOLOGIST | Nostalgia, Video Games, Social Pain
RICHY SRIRACHANIKORN

NOSTALGIA
SCHOLAR
Co-founded North America's first student-led collective in 2022, studying the generative uses of nostalgia with 60+ members from around the world.
PROJECT MANAGER
Organized 4 symposia on nostalgia research and creation, a Montreal games expo with 450+ attendees, a workshop with a McGill University neuroscientist-artist, and on-site local coordination for various events. Learn more here.
AWARD-WINNING STORYTELLER
Final 5 of the SSHRC Storytellers Competition 2023 and an invited speaker for the National 3 Minute Thesis Challenge, and ReAnimate School 2025.
CULTURAL
SOCIOLOGIST
Studying how video games tell us about people's nostalgic desires -- the past they always wanted -- and how we may reveal and actualize this, together.