I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at CUNY Hunter College.

Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside.  I spent my postdoc years as a Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University, where my mentor was Yair Minsky, and an RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, where my mentor was Dick Canary.  I completed my doctoral work under the guidance of Daniel Groves at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and got a masters degree at Virginia Tech before that.

Contact:  mdurham [at] ucr [dot] edu (this will change soon)

Pronouns: they/them

Conferences/workshops:

• Over the week of 5-9 January 2026, Haniya Azam and I are organizing the first Lahore Topology Workshop at the Lahore University of Management Services in Lahore, Pakistan.  The workshop will consist of minicourses for masters and beginning PhD students interested broadly in topology.

• I am organizing (with Thomas Koberda) an ongoing series of conferences called the Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory.  Each features mini-courses given by junior researchers, for graduate students and postdocs, on cutting edge techniques in geometric group theory.  The latest edition was held 9-11 May 2025 at the University of Virginia.  

• Over the weekend of 12-13 April 2025, Marissa Loving and I organized the Inverting Hierarchies Workshop for graduate students in geometry, topology, and dynamics.  The workshop had both research and mentoring components.

• Click here to see all the posters for the conferences I have organized.