| 词条 | Chawne Kimber |
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Professor Chawne Monique Kimber {{IPAc-en|ʃ|ɔː|n}}[1] is an African-American mathematician and quilter,{{r|mqa}} known for expressing her political activism in her quilts.{{r|crq|gelt}} She is a professor at Lafayette College, where she heads the department of mathematics.{{r|profile}} Education and careerKimber comes from a family of cotton farmers and quilters in Alabama.{{r|gelt|bp}} Although she writes that she "always loved math", she began her undergraduate studies at the University of Florida by studying engineering before switching to mathematics because she found it more fulfilling.{{r|dived}} She earned a master's degree at the University of North Carolina in 1995, as a student of Idris Assani.{{r|bwm}} She returned to the University of Florida for doctoral studies, completing her Ph.D. in 1999. Her dissertation, Prime Ideals in Rings of Continuous Functions, connects abstract algebra with functional analysis and was supervised by Jorge Martinez.{{r|mgp}} After a term as Van Vleck Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan College, she joined Lafayette College as an assistant professor.{{r|bwm}} In mathematics, she is known for incorporating concepts of social justice into her classroom teaching.{{r|dived|chron}} QuiltingKimber began quilting in 2005, soon after completing her application for tenure at Lafayette, and her interest in quilting was renewed in 2007 by the death of her father. In 2008 she began creating highly politicized quilts and blogging about them,{{r|bp}} beginning with a series of quilts inspired by George Carlin's seven dirty words and by racist and sexist graffiti on her college campus.{{r|trib|qms}} Her work has been associated with the "modern Quilting" movement, based on its geometric design and provocative content.{{r|wsj}} Kimber's quilts are frequently included at quilting shows and museum exhibits of quilting. The Paul Mellon Arts Center put up a show of her works in 2018.{{r|bp|grandmother}} One of her quilts inspired by the death of Eric Garner won first place at QuiltCon West in 2016,{{r|gelt}} and was included with other pieces by Kimber in a show on "Quilts and Human Rights" at the Pick Museum of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University.{{r|qhr}} As well as quilting, Kimber has also exhibited quilting-inspired works of mathematical origami.{{r|origami|cfb}} References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://community.themodernquiltguild.com/resources/beautiful-mind-chawne-kimber|title=The Beautiful Mind of Chawne Kimber - MQG Community|website=community.themodernquiltguild.com}} [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]2. ^{{citation|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/chawne_kimber.html|title=Chawne Kimber|work=Black Women in Mathematics|first=Scott W.|last=Williams|publisher=University at Buffalo|accessdate=2018-10-11}} 3. ^{{citation|url=https://galleries.lafayette.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/99/2017/04/Crease-Fold-Bend-1.pdf|title=Crease, Fold, and Bend|publisher=Lafayette Art Galleries|year=2013|first1=Kathy|last1=Bruce|first2=Michiko|last2=Okaya|page=18}} 4. ^{{citation|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Adding-Diversity-to-Curricula/142579|title=Adding Diversity to Curricula, Starting in the Classrooms|first=Ben|last=Grose|date=October 28, 2013}} 5. ^{{citation|url=https://www.womenarts.org/2017/02/02/the-colorful-radical-quilts-of-chawne-kimber/|title=The Colorful, Radical Quilts of Chawne Kimber|first=Maria|last=Hlohowskyj|date=February 2, 2017|work=Women Arts}} 6. ^{{citation|url=https://diverseeducation.com/article/15457/|magazine=Diverse: Issues in Higher Education|title=Scholar Combines Math and Social Justice in the Classroom|date=May 3, 2011|first=Lydia|last=Lum}} 7. ^{{citation|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-gun-violence-quilts-20160220-story.html|title=These quilts with messages about gun violence and racial injustice issues aim to discomfort|first=Jessica|last=Gelt|date=February 20, 2016|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} 8. ^{{citation|url=http://thechoatenews.choate.edu/2018/01/26/not-grandmothers-quilt-chawne-kimbers-radical-knits/|newspaper=The Choate News|first=Sasha|last=Bocek|title=Not Your Grandmother’s Quilt: Chawne Kimber’s Radical Knits|date=January 26, 2018}} 9. ^{{mathgenealogy|id=31099}} 10. ^{{citation|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/math-quilting-and-activism/|title=Math, Quilting and Activism: Mathematician Chawne Kimber shares her favorite theorems and quilts that make a statement|first=Evelyn|last=Lamb|magazine=Scientific American|date=October 11, 2018}} 11. ^{{citation|url=http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2014-joint-mathematics-meetings/chawne|title=Chawne Kimber and Ethan Berkove: Weaves and Whorls|work=Mathematical Art Galleries: 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings|publisher=The Bridges Organization|year=2014|accessdate=2018-10-11}} 12. ^{{citation|url=https://math.lafayette.edu/people/chawne-kimber/|title=Chawne Kimber|publisher=Lafayette College|accessdate=2018-10-11}} 13. ^{{citation|url=https://www.niutoday.info/2017/09/25/pick-museum-unveils-quilt-exhibit-with-a-visit-from-reverend-jesse-l-jackson-sr/|magazine=NIU Today|publisher=Northern Illinois University|title=Pick Museum unveils quilt exhibit with a visit from Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr.|date=September 25, 2017}} 14. ^{{citation|title=Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community|first=Rachel|last=May|publisher=Storey Publishing|year=2014|isbn=9781612120638|pages=82–83|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBxRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA82|contribution=Chawne Kimber: How Words Matter}} 15. ^{{citation|title=Uniting politically divided quilters, stitch by stitch|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-quilt-politics-ent-0405-20170331-story.html|first=Cindy|last=Dampier|date=April 4, 2017}} 16. ^{{citation|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324326504578467273484511136|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|title='Modern Quilters' Stress Simplicity, Edgy Subjects: Quilting's new-wave movement focuses on provocative material; fury at the 'F' word|first=Meg|last=Cox|date=May 9, 2013|url-access=subscription}} }} External links
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