B.S. in Mathematics, California State University, San Luis Obispo, 1979
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Oregon, 1985
    Advisors: David K. Harrison and Marie A. Vitulli

Area of mathematical specialization: Algebraic structures

Current areas of academic interest:
    History of mathematics, science, and ideas, c.  1870 - 1930
    Historical scholarship in LGBTQ studies

MATH 102 / CORE 143 (Scientific Perspectives), Introduction to Statistics
MATH 113, Multivariable Calculus
MATH 250, Number Theory & Mathematical Reasoning
MATH 320, Abstract Algebra I
MATH 421, Abstract Algebra II

CORE 121 (Scientific Perspectives), Mathematical Innovation and Social Contexts
CORE 303 (Distinction), Speaking Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Identities since the Nineteenth Century

LGBT 220, Lives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry: An Exploration in LGBTQ Studies

MATH 102 / CORE 143 (Scientific Perspectives), Introduction to Statistics
MATH 113, Multivariable Calculus

British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
History of Science Society (HSS)

"Transgression and transcendence: Flatland as a response to 'A New Philosophy'." Nineteenth Century Contexts 26 (Mar 2004): 61-77.

"'A finite universe?': Riemannian geometry and the Modernist theology of Ernest William Barnes."  British Journal for the History of Science 38 (Jun 2005): 197-217.

A portion of this research was presented at the annual conference of the BSHS, July 2003, York.

"'Who will explain the explanation?': The ambivalent reception of higher dimensional space in the British Spiritualist press, 1875-1900."  Victorian Periodicals Review 41 (Jun 2008): 124-49.

A portion of this research was presented at the annual conference of the HSS, November 2006, Vancouver B.C.  An earlier version of this research was  presented at the annual conference of the BSHS, July, 2006, Canterbury.

"Triangulating the contributions of George Salmon to Victorian disputes on mathematics, evolution, and liberal theology."  Nineteenth Century Contexts 31 (Sep 2009): 251-69.

"Giving wings to logic: Mary Everest Boole's propagation and fulfilment of a legacy."  British Journal for the History of Science 43 (Mar 2010): forthcoming

A portion of this research was presented at Connecting Disciplines: The Sixth Joint Meeting of the BSHS, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, and HSS, July 2008, Keble College, Oxford.

"Alan Turning: Reflecting on the Life, Work, and Popular Representations of a Queer Mathematician." Mathematics and Popular Culture.  Ed. Jessica and Elizabeth Sklar.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, forthcoming.

The fourth dimension in theosophical and esoteric discourses, 1870-1920.  In review.

Promoting and contesting the 'New Infinite' in spiritual contexts, 1880-1920.  In progress.

Public and lay engagements with mathematical innovations c. 1870-1930.