Faculty and Research Interests

The Mathematics Deparment currently has faculty members representing a diversity of areas of specialization. Several members of the faculty are active in research, with particularly active groups in discrete mathematics and quantitative biology.

  • Robert Beeler
    Assistant Professor
    Graph Theory, History of Math, Philosophy of Math
    Ph.D., 2007, Clemson University

  • Nickolas (Murray) Butler
    Assistant Professor
    Statistics, Developmental Math
    M.A., 1975, University of Alabama

  • Robert Davidson
    Professor
    Developmental Math
    Ed.D., 1984, University of Tennessee

  • Robert "Bob" Gardner
    Professor
    Classical Complex Analysis, Discrete Math
    Ph.D., 1991, Auburn University

  • Anant Godbole
    Professor and Chair
    Probablity, Statistics, Combinatorics, Graph Theory, number Theory, Analysis, and the Theory of Algorithms
    Ph.D., 1984, Michigan State University

  • Sherry Hardin
    Assistant Professor
    Developmental Math
    Ed.D., 1995, East Tennessee State University

  • Teresa Haynes
    Professor
    Graph Theory, Networking
    Ph.D., 1988, University of Central Florida

  • Michel Helfgott
    Associate Professor
    Math Education
    Doctor of Education, 1997, Montana State University - Bozeman

  • Susan Hosler
    Instructor
    M.S., 2002, East Tennessee State University

  • T. Henry Jablonski, Jr.
    Associate Professor Emeritus
    M.P.H., 1966, University of North Carolina
  • Lyndell Kerley
    Professor
    Fourier Analysis
    Ph.D., 1977, University of Tennessee

  • Debra Knisley
    Associate Professor
    Graph Theory
    Ph.D., 1989, University of Memphis

  • Jeff Knisley
    Associate Professor
    Operator Theory
    Ph.D., 1990, Vanderbilt University

  • Yali Liu
    Assistant Professor
    Statistics
    Ph.D., 2005, Purdue University

  • Michael Marks
    Instructor
    General Topology, Differential Topology
    M.S., 1991, University of Florida

  • Jamie McGill
    Assistant Professor
    Developmental Math, Precalculus, Calculus
    M.S., 1992, East Tennesseee State University

  • Yared Nigussie
    Assistant Professor
    Combinatorics and Graph Theory
    Ph.D., 1999, Ohio State University

  • Frederick Norwood
    Professor
    Topology
    Ph.D., 1979, University of Southwestern Louisiana

  • George Poole
    Professor
    Matrix Theory, Numerical Linear Algebra, Geometry
    Ph.D., 1972, Texas Tech University

  • Robert Price
    Associate Professor
    Statistics
    Ph.D., 1996, University of Wyoming

  • Edith Seier
    Associate Professor
    Statistics
    Ph.D., 1998, University of Wyoming

  • Willie (D.C.) Smith
    Instructor
    Developmental Math
    M.A.L.S., 2001, East Tennessee State University

  • Daryl Stephens
    Assistant Professor
    Mathematics Education, Developmental Math
    Ph.D., 2005, University of Tennessee

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