Born:  1938, Enid, Oklahoma

David Wade Chambers, Author, Teacher.  Wade Chambers  (of Cherokee, English and Welsh ancestry) was born in Enid, Oklahoma in 1938. Chambers’ academic field is the history and cultural studies of science. In recent years, the major focus of his research has been to explore the relationship of Western science to indigenous ways of knowing the world. He has written and edited about thirty textbooks and over forty scholarly articles. He is also the author of the Draw-a-Scientist Test which has been used in over two hundred research studies around the world.

Chambers has held professional appointments at universities in three countries: McGill and Concordia Universities in Canada; Melbourne and Deakin Universities in Australia; and Southern Methodist and UCSD in the US. In the mid nineties he was Director of an MA in Science and Technology Studies at Deakin University (Australia), one of the first graduate studies degrees in the world to be available entirely online. Since 2000 he has been Director of the Native Eyes Distance Learning Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM.