About

I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Carleton College, supported by the National Science Foundation’s LEAPS fellowship, and am Deputy Editor of MAA FOCUS. This Winter, I am teaching Calculus II, Math Structures (an introduction to proof-writing), and supervising Senior Comps.

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I study resolvent problems and arithmetic topology. My interests include history and illustration: I like to think about how and why we do math—in relation to global institutions, political conflict, and social movements—towards sustainable mathematical futures. I am a member of the ’23 Green NExT cohort. Before Carleton, I was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow with Jesse Wolfson and Nathan Kaplan. I did my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, advised by Benson Farb and supported in part by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. I also studied Math, Physics, and Computer Science at New Mexico Tech.

I’m in love with Minneapolis, though parts of my heart will always reside in Albuquerque and Chicago. I am also a labor organizer, starting with Graduate Students United in 2016. Since then, I’ve worked with National Nurses United, the Chicago Teachers Union, and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. In my spare time, I like to write, exercise, play Dungeons & Dragons, and spend time with my partner and our Catulus. I’ve GM-ed at ConFluence: Futures in Color both times it has run, and met some really wonderful humans this year—keep an eye out for next time!

What I’m reading

These are things I find beautiful or exciting, in no particular order:

Topology of varieties

  • “Essential dimension relative to branched covers of degree at most n,” by Benson Farb and Jesse Wolfson (2025).
  • “Monodromy in the space of symmetric cubic surfaces with a line,” by Thomas Brazelton and Sidhanth Raman (2024).
  • “Monodromy of stratified braid groups,” by Nick Salter (2023–2024).

More math

  • “Classical Optics for Charged Black Holes,” by Steve Trettel (2025).
  • “Ray-marching Thurston geometries,” by Rémi Coulon, Elisabetta Matsumoto, Henry Segerman, and Steve Trettel (2022).
  • “Adding a point to configurations in closed balls,” by Lei Chen, Nir Gadish, Justin Lanier (2018).

History, sociology, and anthropology

  • “Automated mathematics and the reconfiguration of proof and labor,” by Rodrigo Ochigame (2024).
  • “Inverting hierarchies: The sociology of mathematical practice,” by Michael Barany and Milena Kremakova (2023).
  • “Felix Klein’s teaching of Galois theory,” by Henning Heller (2023).
  • Framing Global Mathematics: The International Mathematical Union Between Theorems and Politics, by Norbert Schappacher (2022).

Fiction

  • Octavia’s Brood, edited by Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha. (Thanks, Mathilde!)
  • The Player of Games, by Iain Banks.
  • System Collapse, by Martha Wells.

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