James Higgs

James Higgs is a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Ethics Center at Yale. Previously recognized as one of the top 100 tertiary students in South Africa, he obtained both his BCom and MCom from Rhodes University, South Africa, majoring in Information Systems. James received his PhD from the University of Tulsa. His dissertation, titled “Money Laundering in Online Video Gaming”, explored the intersection of money laundering, cybercrime and the online video gaming ecosystem. James’s research interests include money laundering and financial crime, behavioral cybersecurity, criminology and social deviance, responsible design, and the philosophical foundations of research methodologies.