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Karen Parshall

American historian of mathematics · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1955 · age 71

Karen Hunger Parshall is an American historian of mathematics. She is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and Department of Mathematics.

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2020Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2018Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial PrizeAward2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward1996Guggenheim FellowshipAward1955Born7 July 1955

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Awards

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2020
Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize2018
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society2013
Guggenheim Fellowship1996

About this person

From 2009 to 2012, Parshall was the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts in Sciences at UVA, and from 2016 to 2019 she was the chair of the Corcoran Department of History.

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United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1955 · age 71