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Biography
Deanna Haunsperger is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Carleton College. She is the president of the Mathematical Association of America for the 2017–2018 term. She co-created and co-organized the Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women, which ran every summer from 1995 to 2014.
Education
Haunsperger received her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from Simpson College in 1986. She received her Masters in Mathematics in 1989 and her PhD in Mathematics in 1991 from Northwestern University.
Her dissertation was entitled Projection and Aggregation Paradoxes in Nonparametrical Statistical Tests and her advisor was Donald Gene Saari.
Career
Haunsperger was an assistant professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College from 1991 to 1994. Since 1994, she has been a faculty member in the Mathematics department at Carleton College.
Director Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women
Awards and honors
President of the Mathematical Association of America (2017–2018)
Co-Editor of Math Horizons (1999–2003)
Second Vice-President of the MAA (2006–2008)
Association for Women in Mathematics Gweneth Humphreys Award (2012)
Association for Women in Mathematics Presidential Award (2017)