Allison Henrich (born 1980) is an American mathematician specializing in

knot theory In the mathematical field of topology, knot theory is the study of knot (mathematics), mathematical knots. While inspired by knots which appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are ...

and also interested in undergraduate-level mathematics research mentorship. She is a professor of mathematics at

Seattle University Seattle University (SeattleU) is a private Jesuit university in Seattle, Washington. Seattle University is the largest independent university in the Northwestern United States, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate prog ...

Education and career

Henrich entered college planning for an undergraduate teaching career, graduated in 2003 from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

with a

double major A double degree program, sometimes called a dual degree, combined degree, conjoint degree, joint degree or double graduation program, involves a student's working for two university degrees in parallel—either at the same institution or at diffe ...

in mathematics and philosophy. She completed a Ph.D. at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

in 2008. Her dissertation, ''A Sequence of Degree One Vassiliev Invariants for Virtual Knots'', was supervised by Vladimir Chernov. At Dartmouth,

Carolyn S. Gordon Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950) is a mathematician and Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. She is most well known for giving a negative answer to the question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" in her work with David Webb ...

became another faculty mentor. She joined the Seattle University mathematics faculty in 2009, and was promoted to full professor in 2019.

Books

Henrich is the coauthor of a book on knot theory, ''An Interactive Introduction to Knot Theory'' (with Inga Johnson, Dover Publications, 2017). She also coauthored the book ''A Mathematician’s Practical Guide to Mentoring Undergraduate Research'' (with Michael Dorff and Lara Pudwell, Mathematical Association of America, American Mathematical Society, and Council on Undergraduate Research, 2019). With Emille D. Lawrence, Matthew Pons, and David Taylor, she co-edited the book ''Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey'' (American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, 2019). She is also an editor of ''Knots, Links, Spatial Graphs, and Algebraic Invariants'' (with

Erica Flapan Erica Flapan (born August 14, 1956) is an American mathematician, the Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. Education and career Flapan did her undergraduate studies at Hamilton College (New York), graduating in 1977, and ...

, Aaron Kaestner, and Sam Nelson, American Mathematical Society, 2017).

Recognition

In 2015, the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...

gave Henrich their Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, and also their Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award for expository excellence for her article "Unknotting unknots" coauthored with

Louis Kauffman Louis Hirsch Kauffman (born February 3, 1945) is an American mathematician, topologist, and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is known for the ...

. The award citation for the Alder Award cited her work in interactive learning, in guiding undergraduate mathematics students to become mentors to elementary school students, and in founding a summer research program at for underrepresented undergraduates, hosted at Seattle University.

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