Deanna Haunsperger

Carleton College
Email:  dhaunspe@carleton.edu

Bio: A former President of the Mathematical Association of America, Deanna Haunsperger has also served the MAA in numerous ways over the years, including as co-editor of Math Horizons, Second Vice President, co-chair of the Centennial Planning Committee, and Chair of the Council on Outreach. She is the 2021 recipient of the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service.

Haunsperger is passionate about opening the doors of mathematics to everyone. To that end, she co-directed with Steve Kennedy the Carleton Summer Mathematics Program for Women 1995-2014, which the AMS named a Program that Makes a Difference.

Haunsperger is co-editor of several volumes, including  The Edge of the Universe, A Century of Advancing Mathematics, 101 Careers in Mathematics , and  Count Me In: Community and Belonging in Mathematics.  She received the AWM M. Gweneth Humphreys Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Women, the AWM President's Award, and was an inaugural AWM Fellow.

Haunsperger is a Professor of Mathematics at Carleton College, where she has taught for over twenty-five years. She is married to fellow mathematician Steve Kennedy and has two adult children.