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| Gary Downey is an ethnographic listener interested in the relationship between knowledge and personhood. Trained as a mechanical engineer (B.S. Lehigh 1974) and cultural anthropologist (B.A. Lehigh 1974, M.A. 1977 Chicago, Ph.D. Chicago 1981), he is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Departments of Engineering Education and Sociology, as well as in the Women's Studies Program. Currently Boeing Company Senior Fellow in Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering, he also serves at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on a panel exploring relationships between the liberal arts and the professions. He is winner of the 2004 William E. Wine Award for career excellence in teaching, 2003 XCaliber Award for high-quality instructional technology, and 1997 Diggs Teaching Scholar Award for original scholarship in teaching. He is author of The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers (Routledge 1998), co-editor of The Machine in Me: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technology (School of American Research Press 1998), and co-developer of the multimedia textbook Engineering Cultures (Virginia Tech 2002). His current research explores the influences of popular concepts of progress on what counts as engineers and engineering knowledge in different countries. | |||||||||||||||||||
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