Ron Eglash
Biographic Data
| ID | 480553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ron Eglash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ron |
| FAMILY NAME | Eglash |
| SIGNATURE | EGLASH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1354-1300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
African Interlace as Dynamic Grids
African interlaces are continuous “over-under” paths that can be found in designs throughout the African continent. They include lusona drawings, Orisha beadwork, and related designs from hair braiding, textiles, and other media. But there has been little research examining the common cultural themes expressed, or the common elements of their shape constructions. We begin with an ethnocomputing methodology to show how their visualization of “circ…
AI governance through fractal scaling
Computing for community-based economies
Computational reparations as generative justice
The Latin roots of the word reparations are "re" (again) plus "parere" which means "to give birth to, bring into being, produce". Together they mean "to make generative once again". In this sense, the extraction processes that cause labor injustice, ecological devastation, and social degradation cannot be repaired by simply transferring money. Reparations need to take on the full sense of "restorative": the transition to a decolonial system that …
Anti-racism for Freethinkers
PH empowered
Culturally responsive computing (CRC) frames the localized knowledges and practices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities as assets for working toward racial justice in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A key part of CRC is the role that local communities play in designing and/or implementing curricula and technologies. Yet, there is a dearth of research on collaborating with local knowledge experts and what they thi…
Authente-Kente
Authente-Kente
Keepin' it real about race in HCI
research-article Keepin' it real about race in HCI Authors: Race in HCI Collective View Profile , Angela D. R. Smith [email protected] [email protected]View Profile , Adriana Alvarado Garcia View Profile , Ian Arawjo View Profile , Audrey Bennett View Profile , Khalia Braswell View Profile , Bryan Dosono View Profile , Ron Eglash View Profile , Denae Ford View Profile , Daniel Gardner View Profile , Shamika Goddard View Profile , Jaye Nias View P…
Decolonizing posthumanism
This paper describes a decolonial perspective on material agency in the context of STEM education and application. Using the framework of generative STEM, we engaged in case studies with African, African American, South American, and Native American educational communities. This research shows that understanding material agency based on Indigenous knowledge systems can open a rich source of research and education content. Using a suite of simulat…
Automation for the artisanal economy
On the Politics of Generative Justice
A mathematical tool kit for generative justice
Como a matemática pode melhor contribuir para a justiça social e a sustentabilidade? A justiça distributiva aborda a pobreza e os problemas relacionados de cima para baixo: movendo o valor extraído da propriedade privada para a propriedade estatal. Mas, a história do socialismo burocrático, da poluição na URSS à escassez de alimentos na Venezuela, mostra tantos problemas quanto o capitalismo. A justiça generativa, ao contrário, funciona de baixo …
Recursive Depth in Generative Spaces
Kelty's “recursive public” is defined as a binary: whether or not ownership of intellectual property is legally in the public domain. We propose a broader continuum of recursive depth, which spans the range from shallow constrained generative spaces (e.g., photo memes) to the deeply open collaborations of “critical making” communities. Recursive depth is assessed by the capacity for transformation across three distinct continuums: public/propriet…
Culturally Responsive Computing in Urban, After-School Contexts
The academic performance and engagement of youth from under-represented ethnic groups (African American, Latino, and Indigenous) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) show statistically large gaps in comparison with their White and Asian peers. Some of these differences can be attributed to the direct impact of economic forces. But cultural factors also play a role. This essay will examine two culturally responsive math educ…
Anthropology and Emerging Technologies
Broken Metaphor
The use of the term "master-slave" is currently quite common in technical descriptions of control relation between two devices: automotive clutch and brake systems (master cylinder, slave cylinder), clocks, flip-flop circuits, computer drives, radio transmitters, and others. This essay describes the history of its technical use, dating from its origin in 1904, and the various relations between its technical usage and its racialized social connota…
Technology as Material Culture
Culturally Situated Design Tools
Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts-Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth-using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a review of the anthropological issues raised in the CSD…
Universal And Local Knowledge
For those of us who have struggled to have non-Western knowledge systems recognized as a legitimate topic in Science and Technology Studies, Turnbull’s Masons, Tricksters, and Cartographers is a exciting demonstration for the viability of these interdisciplinary hybrids. But the text is far more than just vindication for indigenous technoscience: his reason for juxtaposing these more traditional anthropological case studies with their complimenta…
Race, Sex, and Nerds
Research Article| June 01 2002 Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS Ron Eglash Ron Eglash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 49–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ron Eglash; Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS. Social Text 1 June 2002; 20 (2 (71)):…
The Race For Cyberspace
2001). The Race For Cyberspace: Information Technology in the Black Diaspora. Science as Culture: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 353-374
The Machine in Me
The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers. Gary Lee Downey. New York: Routledge Press, 1998. xiii. 288 pp., notes, reference, index
Cybernetics and American Youth Subculture
Similar shifts can be seen in the use of cybernetic modelling across a wide variety of scientific disciplines. This article will categorize these shifts in terms of three historical phases: (1) modern cybernetics, focused on digital hierarchical systems, which reached its high point in the late 1960s; (2) transitional postmodern cybernetics, focused on analogue decentralized systems, which started in the late 1970s; and (3) stable postmodern cybe…
The African Heritage of Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker is well known for his accomplishments in early American applied science, as well as for his seminal role in African-American science history. Historical and linguistic evidence suggests that his grandfather was of Wolof origin, and that his father was from the area between what is now Ghana and Nigeria. This cultural heritage may have emerged in some of his mathematical thinking
Culturally Situated Design Tools
Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts-Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth-using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a review of the anthropological issues raised in the CSD…
Race, Sex, and Nerds
Research Article| June 01 2002 Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS Ron Eglash Ron Eglash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 49–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ron Eglash; Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS. Social Text 1 June 2002; 20 (2 (71)):…
Bamana Sand Divination
Ethnomathematics can consider recursion in two senses of the word. Mathematically, recursion consists of iterated functions, a kind of discrete feedback loop. Anthropologically, recursion is used in reflexive ethnographic description in which modern analytic methods become part of their own investigation. By comparing the recursive structure of Bamana divination techniques to recursion in modern mathematics, we can investigate some of the complex…
When Math Worlds Collide
Ethnomathematics is a relatively new discipline that investigates mathematical knowl edge in small-scale, indigenous cultures. This essay locates ethnomathematics as one of five distinct subfields within a general anthropology of mathematics and describes interactions between cultural and epistemological features that have created these divisions. It reviews the political and pedagogical issues in which ethnomathematics research and practice is i…
Culturally Responsive Computing in Urban, After-School Contexts
The academic performance and engagement of youth from under-represented ethnic groups (African American, Latino, and Indigenous) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) show statistically large gaps in comparison with their White and Asian peers. Some of these differences can be attributed to the direct impact of economic forces. But cultural factors also play a role. This essay will examine two culturally responsive math educ…
Computational reparations as generative justice
The Latin roots of the word reparations are "re" (again) plus "parere" which means "to give birth to, bring into being, produce". Together they mean "to make generative once again". In this sense, the extraction processes that cause labor injustice, ecological devastation, and social degradation cannot be repaired by simply transferring money. Reparations need to take on the full sense of "restorative": the transition to a decolonial system that …
Recursive Depth in Generative Spaces
Kelty's “recursive public” is defined as a binary: whether or not ownership of intellectual property is legally in the public domain. We propose a broader continuum of recursive depth, which spans the range from shallow constrained generative spaces (e.g., photo memes) to the deeply open collaborations of “critical making” communities. Recursive depth is assessed by the capacity for transformation across three distinct continuums: public/propriet…
Broken Metaphor
The use of the term "master-slave" is currently quite common in technical descriptions of control relation between two devices: automotive clutch and brake systems (master cylinder, slave cylinder), clocks, flip-flop circuits, computer drives, radio transmitters, and others. This essay describes the history of its technical use, dating from its origin in 1904, and the various relations between its technical usage and its racialized social connota…
The Race For Cyberspace
2001). The Race For Cyberspace: Information Technology in the Black Diaspora. Science as Culture: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 353-374
The African Heritage of Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker is well known for his accomplishments in early American applied science, as well as for his seminal role in African-American science history. Historical and linguistic evidence suggests that his grandfather was of Wolof origin, and that his father was from the area between what is now Ghana and Nigeria. This cultural heritage may have emerged in some of his mathematical thinking
Universal And Local Knowledge
For those of us who have struggled to have non-Western knowledge systems recognized as a legitimate topic in Science and Technology Studies, Turnbull’s Masons, Tricksters, and Cartographers is a exciting demonstration for the viability of these interdisciplinary hybrids. But the text is far more than just vindication for indigenous technoscience: his reason for juxtaposing these more traditional anthropological case studies with their complimenta…
The African Heritage of Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker is well known for his accomplishments in early American applied science, as well as for his seminal role in African-American science history. Historical and linguistic evidence suggests that his grandfather was of Wolof origin, and that his father was from the area between what is now Ghana and Nigeria. This cultural heritage may have emerged in some of his mathematical thinking
When Math Worlds Collide
Ethnomathematics is a relatively new discipline that investigates mathematical knowl edge in small-scale, indigenous cultures. This essay locates ethnomathematics as one of five distinct subfields within a general anthropology of mathematics and describes interactions between cultural and epistemological features that have created these divisions. It reviews the political and pedagogical issues in which ethnomathematics research and practice is i…
Bamana Sand Divination
Ethnomathematics can consider recursion in two senses of the word. Mathematically, recursion consists of iterated functions, a kind of discrete feedback loop. Anthropologically, recursion is used in reflexive ethnographic description in which modern analytic methods become part of their own investigation. By comparing the recursive structure of Bamana divination techniques to recursion in modern mathematics, we can investigate some of the complex…
Cybernetics and American Youth Subculture
Similar shifts can be seen in the use of cybernetic modelling across a wide variety of scientific disciplines. This article will categorize these shifts in terms of three historical phases: (1) modern cybernetics, focused on digital hierarchical systems, which reached its high point in the late 1960s; (2) transitional postmodern cybernetics, focused on analogue decentralized systems, which started in the late 1970s; and (3) stable postmodern cybe…
The Machine in Me
The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits among Computer Engineers. Gary Lee Downey. New York: Routledge Press, 1998. xiii. 288 pp., notes, reference, index
The Race For Cyberspace
2001). The Race For Cyberspace: Information Technology in the Black Diaspora. Science as Culture: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 353-374
Race, Sex, and Nerds
Research Article| June 01 2002 Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS Ron Eglash Ron Eglash Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 49–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ron Eglash; Race, Sex, and Nerds: FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN AMERICAN HIPSTERS. Social Text 1 June 2002; 20 (2 (71)):…
Universal And Local Knowledge
For those of us who have struggled to have non-Western knowledge systems recognized as a legitimate topic in Science and Technology Studies, Turnbull’s Masons, Tricksters, and Cartographers is a exciting demonstration for the viability of these interdisciplinary hybrids. But the text is far more than just vindication for indigenous technoscience: his reason for juxtaposing these more traditional anthropological case studies with their complimenta…
Technology as Material Culture
Culturally Situated Design Tools
Ethnomathematics is the study of mathematical ideas and practices situated in their cultural context. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) are web-based software applications that allow students to create simulations of cultural arts-Native American beadwork, African American cornrow hairstyles, urban graffiti, and so forth-using these underlying mathematical principles. This article is a review of the anthropological issues raised in the CSD…
Broken Metaphor
The use of the term "master-slave" is currently quite common in technical descriptions of control relation between two devices: automotive clutch and brake systems (master cylinder, slave cylinder), clocks, flip-flop circuits, computer drives, radio transmitters, and others. This essay describes the history of its technical use, dating from its origin in 1904, and the various relations between its technical usage and its racialized social connota…
Anthropology and Emerging Technologies
Culturally Responsive Computing in Urban, After-School Contexts
The academic performance and engagement of youth from under-represented ethnic groups (African American, Latino, and Indigenous) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) show statistically large gaps in comparison with their White and Asian peers. Some of these differences can be attributed to the direct impact of economic forces. But cultural factors also play a role. This essay will examine two culturally responsive math educ…
Recursive Depth in Generative Spaces
Kelty's “recursive public” is defined as a binary: whether or not ownership of intellectual property is legally in the public domain. We propose a broader continuum of recursive depth, which spans the range from shallow constrained generative spaces (e.g., photo memes) to the deeply open collaborations of “critical making” communities. Recursive depth is assessed by the capacity for transformation across three distinct continuums: public/propriet…
On the Politics of Generative Justice
A mathematical tool kit for generative justice
Como a matemática pode melhor contribuir para a justiça social e a sustentabilidade? A justiça distributiva aborda a pobreza e os problemas relacionados de cima para baixo: movendo o valor extraído da propriedade privada para a propriedade estatal. Mas, a história do socialismo burocrático, da poluição na URSS à escassez de alimentos na Venezuela, mostra tantos problemas quanto o capitalismo. A justiça generativa, ao contrário, funciona de baixo …
Decolonizing posthumanism
This paper describes a decolonial perspective on material agency in the context of STEM education and application. Using the framework of generative STEM, we engaged in case studies with African, African American, South American, and Native American educational communities. This research shows that understanding material agency based on Indigenous knowledge systems can open a rich source of research and education content. Using a suite of simulat…
Automation for the artisanal economy
PH empowered
Culturally responsive computing (CRC) frames the localized knowledges and practices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities as assets for working toward racial justice in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A key part of CRC is the role that local communities play in designing and/or implementing curricula and technologies. Yet, there is a dearth of research on collaborating with local knowledge experts and what they thi…
Authente-Kente
Authente-Kente
Keepin' it real about race in HCI
research-article Keepin' it real about race in HCI Authors: Race in HCI Collective View Profile , Angela D. R. Smith [email protected] [email protected]View Profile , Adriana Alvarado Garcia View Profile , Ian Arawjo View Profile , Audrey Bennett View Profile , Khalia Braswell View Profile , Bryan Dosono View Profile , Ron Eglash View Profile , Denae Ford View Profile , Daniel Gardner View Profile , Shamika Goddard View Profile , Jaye Nias View P…
Anti-racism for Freethinkers
Computational reparations as generative justice
The Latin roots of the word reparations are "re" (again) plus "parere" which means "to give birth to, bring into being, produce". Together they mean "to make generative once again". In this sense, the extraction processes that cause labor injustice, ecological devastation, and social degradation cannot be repaired by simply transferring money. Reparations need to take on the full sense of "restorative": the transition to a decolonial system that …
AI governance through fractal scaling
Sociology (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works)