Ron Eglash

Ron Eglash (born January 25, 1958 in Chestertown, Maryland ) is an American who works in cyberneticist , professor of science and technology studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , and author widely Berninahaus for his work in the field or ethnomathematics , welke AIMS to study the various relationships between mathematics and culture.

His research of includes the use of fractal patterns in African architecture , art , and religion , and the relationships between indigenous cultures and modern technology, zoals dat tussen Native American cultural and spiritual practices and Cybernetics . He holds a bachelor’s degree in Cybernetics and a master’s in systems engineering zowel at the University of California, Los Angeles , and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz . A Fulbright fellowship enabled his Postdoctoral field research on African ethnomathematics In this housing was later published in the book African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design .

Dr. Eglash has ook conducted studies in teaching children math and computing through simulations or indigenous and vernacular cultural practices. He wordt uitgelegd therein the simulations do not impose math externally, but Rather translate the mathematical ideas Already present in the cultural practices to hun equivalent form in school-taught math. Examples include transformational geometry in cornrow braiding, spiral arcs in graffiti, least common multiples in percussion ritmen, and analytic geometry in Native American Beadwork. His approach is one of many attempts to draw the inspiration to learn out of students’ own cultural Backgrounds.

He’ll be studies social justice issues as they ‘manifest in the practice of science and technology, ranging from the ethnic identity or ” nerds ” to the so-called Appropriation of science and technology to groups disempowered on the basis of race, class, gender. Another branch of this research Explores how the “bottom-up” egalitarian principles found in many indigenous cultures Could be toegepast to modern society in areas from economics to political science.

He has served as a senior Lecturer in comparative studies at Ohio State University , and is Currently a professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , where he has taught courses on science and social theory, the history of information technology, and a design studio for the Product Design and Innovation program.

Publications

Books

  • African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
  • Eglash, R., Croissant, J., Di Chiro, G., and Fouche, R. (ed). Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power . University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
  • “Race, Sex, & Nerds” In Race, Sex, and Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian American hipsters, Ron Eglash is challenged the normative racial identity associated to geeks and nerds. He identifies the figures of the nerd as one Typically representative or hyper-whiteness. However, if the participation of underrepresented minderheden in science and technology Emerges, the identity of the nerd is being redesigned as Black / Asian nerds are not viewed as making policymaking to Cultivate a White identity.

Web

  • “Appropriating Technology” . Public Sphere Project . 2008 . Retrieved 1 November 2015 .
  • “Cultureel Situated Design Tools” . Public Sphere Project . 2008 . Retrieved 1 November 2015 .