About Ron
Bio
Dr. Ron Eglash holds a B.S. in Cybernetics, an M.S. in Systems Engineering, and PhD in History of Consciousness, all from the University of California. A Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship enabled his field research on African ethnomathematics, which was published by Rutgers University Press in 1999 as African Fractals: modern computing and indigenous design. He is now an associate professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he teaches a studio class on the design of educational technologies as well as graduate seminars in social studies of science and technology. Recent essay titles include “"Culturally Situated Design Tools: Ethnocomputing from Field Site to Classroom" (American Anthropologist), and “Race, Sex and Nerds: from Black Geeks to Asian-American Hipsters” (Social Text).