Kenneth
G. Valente
Associate
Professor of Mathematics and University Studies (Joint Appointment)
Chair of First-Year Seminar, Global Engagements, and CORE Distinction
Programs
Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ)
Studies
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
Other areas of academic interest:
History of mathematics, science, and culture,
c. 1870 - 1930
Historical scholarship in LGBTQ studies
Courses recently developed and
offered
MATH 102 / CORE
143 (Scientific
Perspectives), Introduction to
Statistics
MATH 113, Calculus III (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
Teaching assignment in Fall 2009
FSEM 141 (CORE
121), Mathematical Innovation and Social Contexts
LGBT 220, Lives, Communities, and Modes of Inquiry: An Exploration in
LGBTQ Studies
Professional
memberships
British Society
for the History of
Science (BSHS)
History of Science
Society (HSS)
Recent scholarship and
current research interests
"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.
Triangulating the contributions of George Salmon to Victorian disputes
on mathematics, evolution, and liberal theology.
Nineteenth
Century Contexts
31 (Sep 2009): forthcoming
A
portion of this research was presented in January 2004 as part of
Colgate University's Division of
Natural
Sciences & Mathematics Colloquium Series.
Portions were also included in the program of the annual
conference of the BSHS, June 2004, Liverpool.
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.
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.
Last revised June
2009. All rights reserved.
Mail to: kvalente@mail.colgate.edu