CV

Academic Positions

• Professor, 2024-present, Claremont McKenna College. 

• Associate Professor, 2018-2024, Claremont McKenna College.

• Extended Faculty 2019-present, Claremont Graduate University.

• von Neumann Fellow, 2017-2018,  Institute for Advanced Study.

• Associate Professor, 2016-18, Carleton College.

• Assistant Professor, 2009-2016, Carleton College.

• Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, 2007-2009, Bowdoin College.

Education 

• PhD in Mathematics, 2007; MS and MPhil, 2003, Yale University. 

• Fulbright Student Research Fellow, 1999-2000, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Hungary.

• BA in Mathematics, summa cum laude, distinction in major, 1999, Pomona College.

Awards and Fellowships

Research

• SQuaREs Grant, American Insitute of Mathematics, 2023-2024. 

• Joan and Joseph Birman Fellowship for Women Scholars, American Mathematical Society, 2021-22. 

• Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, 2021-22.  

• von Neumann Fellowship, 2017-18, Institute for Advanced Study. 

• Summer Collaborators, 2018, Institute for Advanced Study.

• Eugster Fellowship and Class of ’49 Fellowships, 2012-13, Carleton College. 

• Mentoring Travel Grant, 2010-11, Association for Women in Mathematics.

• Faculty Research Award, 2007-08, Bowdoin College. 

• Conference Travel Grant, 2007, Association for Women in Mathematics.

• Fulbright Student Research Fellowship, 1999-200, US Department of State.

NSF Grants

• Standard Grant, RUI: Pure and Applied Knot Theory: Skeins, Hyperbolic Volumes, and Biopolymers (DMS-2305414), 2023-2026

• Standard Grant, RUI: Knots in Three-Dimensional Manifolds: Quantum Topology, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Applications (DMS-1906323), 2019-2023 

• Standard Grant, RUI: Skeins on Surfaces (DMS-1510453, DMS-1841221), 2015-2020

• Standard Grant, RUI: Relating Quantum and Classical Topology and Geometry (DMS-11522850), 2011-2016

• (co-PI with Dave Futer, Ko Honda) Conference Grant, Classical and quantum hyperbolic geometry and topology (DMS-11522850), 2015

Teaching and Curricular

• Faculty Fellow, Presidential Initiative on Anti-Racism, 2024, Claremont McKenna College. 

• Visualization of the Liberal Arts Initiative Curricular Grant, 2010, Carleton College. 

• Project NExT Fellowship, Richard Good Fund, 2009-10, Mathematical Association of America.  

• Prize Teaching Award, 2007, Yale University.

Academic or Other Honors 

• Ninetta Runnals Speaker for Women in Mathematics, 2018, Colby College.  

• Barbara Sanford and Bertha Clendenen McCord Prizes in Music, 1999; Concerto Competition Winner, 1999, Pomona College. 

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1999; Sigma Xi, 1997, Pomona College.

•  Jaeger Prize in Mathematics, 1996, Pomona College.  

Participation in Selected Professional Enrichment Programs 

• Undergraduate Faculty Program, Topological Quantum Computation, 2023, Park City Mathematics Institute/Institute of Advanced Study.

• Undergraduate Faculty Program, Elementary Topology in the Undergraduate Curriculum, 2011, Park City Mathematics Institute/Institute of Advanced Study.

• Project NeXT Program, Green Dot, 2009-10, Mathematical Association of America.

•  Mathematics Research Communities, Teichmuller Theory & Low-dimensional Topology, 2008, American Mathematical Society.  

• Women and Mathematics Program, Knots, Surfaces, the Curve Complex, and Foliations, 2008, Institute for Advanced Studies. 

• Intern in the Division of Macroeconomic Analysis and Quantitative Studies, Summer 2001, United States Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC. 

• Chamber Music Fellowship, Summer 2001, Garth Newel Music Center. 

• Research Experience for Undergraduates, 1998, College of William and Mary. 

• Summer Institute in Mathematical Sciences for Undergraduate Women, 1997, UC Berkeley.  

Selected Professional Service

• Member of Mathematical Association of America, Association for Women in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

• NSF Grants Panel and ad hoc Reviewer.

• Mathematical Association of America's Committee on the Merten Hasse Prize 2020-24; Committee on Memberships, 2013-2016 and 2017-2020; ad hoc Invited Addresses Committee 2015-16.

• Association for Women in Mathematics's Mentoring Grant Selection Committee 2021-24. 

• Claremont Center for Mathematical Sciences' Executive Committee 2021-22.