Interdisciplinary Work

Interests

I have research and scholarly interests at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, teaching and learning, and mathematics, including:

• Active learning

• Using writing in mathematics courses

• History of mathematics

• Mathematics and social justice

• Feminist and reader-response critical theory

• Connections between mathematics education and other disciplines

Book Reviews

1. Reviewed by Benjamin Braun (2021) Inventing the Mathematician: Gender, Race, and Our Cultural Understanding of Mathematics, The American Mathematical Monthly, DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2021.1994246 

Publications

1. Factors that influence college students’ mathematics identity and beliefs about the nature of mathematics, (joint with P. Parrent,  C. Jong, W. Wiseman, and P.G. Sidney), Proceedings of the 45th annual meeting North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. (October, 2023) Reno, NV: University of Nevada, Reno. 

2. Neutrality, Ecofeminist Theory, and the Mathematical Analysis of Partisan Gerrymandering, Global Philosophy volume 33, Article number: 34 (2023), special collection on Mathematical Neutrality in Science, Technology, and Society. Accepted version.

3. Building a Student-Centered Assessment Community: Motivations, Experiences, Supports, and Challenges (joint with Justin Barhite, Courtney George, Angela Hanson, Hunter Lehmann, Camille Schuetz, and Chloe Urbanski Wawrzyniak), to appear in PRIMUS (Problems, Resources, and Issues in Undergraduate Mathematics Studies).

4. Supporting First-Year Mathematics Graduate Students (joint with Uwe Nagel and erica Whitaker), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, December 2022, Volume 69, Number 11, 1925-1928

5. Collaborating Across Disciplines, (joint with Pooja Sidney), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, November 2022, Volume 69, Number 10, 1741-1744

6. Simulating Phase Transitions and Control Measures for Network Epidemics Caused by Infections with Presymptomatic, Asymptomatic, and Symptomatic Stages (joint with Brian Beckage, Jane Molofsky, and Basak Taraktas), PLOS ONE (2020) 15(9): e0238412.

7. On Collaboration and the CBMS Statement on Active Learning, MAA Focus, October/November 2019, 22-24.

8. Teaching History of Mathematics: A Dialogue, (joint with Eric Kahn), Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 9 Issue 1 (January 2019), 317-325.

9. MAA Instructional Practices Guide, Steering Committee member and lead writer for chapter on assessment. MAA, 2017. 

10. What Does Active Learning Mean For Mathematicians?, (joint with Priscilla Bremser, Art M. Duval, Elise Lockwood, and Diana White), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, February 2017, Volume 64, Number 2, 124-129. NOTE: this article was also included in the Princeton University Press anthology The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018

11. Learning Proofs in the Hallway, MAA Focus, April/May 2016, 32-33 

12. Persistent Learning, Critical Teaching: Intelligence Beliefs and Active Learning in Mathematics Courses, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, January 2014, Volume 61, Number 1, 72-74

13. Personal, Expository, Critical, and Creative: Using Writing in Mathematics Courses, PRIMUS (Problems, Resources, and Issues in Undergraduate Mathematics Studies), 24 (6), 2014, 447-464. (Preprint version also available.)

Blog Posts

1. 10 Ways to Build Inclusivity at PhD Granting Institutions, MAA Mathvalues blog, 6 February 2020. 

2. Contributions to the American Mathematical Society blog On Teaching and Learning Mathematics:

   1. Precise Definitions of Mathematical Maturity, 15 April 2019

   2. The MAA Instructional Practices Guide, 2 January 2019

   3. Mathematical Culture Beyond the Classroom, 14 May 2018

   4. Advice for New Doctoral Advisors, 8 January 2018

   5. Students' Views of REUs: a "Magical Place of Thinking", joint with editorial board members, 20 February 2017

   6. Aspirations and Ideals, Struggles and Reality, 6 February 2017

   7. Believing in Mathematics, 16 May 2016

   8. Recent Reports and Recommendations Related to Courses in the First Two Years of College Study, 4 April 2016

   9. The Secret Question (Are We Actually Good at Math?), 1 September 2015

   10. Active Learning in Mathematics, Parts I-VI, with P. Bremser, A. Duval, E. Lockwood, and D. White, September-November 2015

   11. Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework, 1 May 2015

   12. Assessment in Postsecondary Mathematics Courses, 20 August 2014

   13. Teaching Practices Between and Beyond All Lecture and All Student Discovery, 20 June 2014