Brief Curriculum Vitae as of June 2012
2012—Provost and Professor of Mathematics
The University of the South
1994—2012
Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics and Humanities
Davidson College
Selected Publications
Ideas in the Ascendant. The Chronicle Review. July 1, 2011. Online
Detecting Pro-p-groups That Are Not Absolute Galois Groups (with D. Benson, N. Lemire, and J. Mináč), Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal) 613: 175—191 (2007). Arxiv.org page
Exploratory Galois Theory. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. EGT on the web
Beautiful Numbers. The American Scholar 64:4 (Autumn 1995), 572--578.
Selected Lectures
Vann Lecture "Education and Intellectual Habits, Old and New" at The McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tennessee, February 2011
Davidson College Alumni "Back-to-School" Lecture "From Cult to Church" available on Davidson's iTunes site, 2009.
Plenary Lecture "Galois cohomology groups as Galois modules, and applications" at Linear algebraic groups and related structures, Banff International Research Station, September 2009Invited Lectures, Mathematical Association of America New Jersey section meeting, March 2009;
Southern California-Nevada section meeting, March 2008; Indiana section meeting, October 2007; Southeastern section meeting, March 2007
Plenary Workshop, Mathematical Association of America MD/DC/VA section meeting, November 2007
Selected Leadership at Davidson College
Vice Chair pro tem of the Faculty, 2009—2011
Presidential Search Committee, 2010—2011
Faculty Executive Committee, 2006—2011
Strategic Planning:
Graduation Requirements Team, Convener, 2010—2011
Implementation Team, 2009—2010
Ad Hoc Faculty Advisory Committee on Curriculum Development, Chair, 2008—2009
Curriculum Study Group, Chair, 2008
Advisory Council on Finance, Personnel, and Development, Chair, 2004—2005
External Board Work
The University of the South, Board of Regents, 2007—2011, Secretary 2010—2011; Board of Trustees, 2001—2007
American Mathematical Society, Notices Editorial Board, 2007—
Mathematical Association of America Southeastern Section, Executive Committee, 2006—2007
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Board of Regional Representatives, 2003—2006
External Awards and Honors
National Science Foundation, 2006—2010 (Research in Undergraduate Institutions Award); 1998—1999 (International Research Fellowship); 1994—1998 (Career Award); 1989—1992 (Graduate Fellowship)
National Security Agency, 2002—2004 (Young Investigator Award)Salzburg Seminar, 2007 (Young Leaders Summit: Global Scenarios and Strategies for 2030, December 2007)
Education
Yale University, Mathematics, Ph. D. 1994, M. Phil., M. S. 1991
The University of the South, English Literature (honors) and Mathematics (honors), B. A. 1989
Visiting Positions
Chercheur invité, Université Bordeaux I, 2005—2006
Professeur invité et rapporteur de thèse, Université Valenciennes, June 2004
Visiting scientist, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, 1998—1999
Maître de conférences invité, Université Lille I, May—June 1997
References
upon request