Allison Henrich
Allison Henrich is an American mathematician specializing in knot theory and also interested in undergraduate-level mathematics research mentorship. She is a professor of mathematics at Seattle University.
Education and career
Henrich entered college planning for an undergraduate teaching career,graduating in 2003 from the University of Washington with a double major in mathematics and philosophy. She completed a Ph.D. at Dartmouth College in 2008. Her dissertation, A Sequence of Degree One Vassiliev Invariants for Virtual Knots, was supervised by Vladimir Chernov. At Dartmouth, Carolyn S. Gordon became another faculty mentor.
She joined the Seattle University mathematics faculty in 2009, and was promoted to full professor in 2019.
Books
Henrich is the coauthor of a book on knot theory, An Interactive Introduction to Knot Theory. She also coauthored the book A Mathematician’s Practical Guide to Mentoring Undergraduate Research.With Emille D. Lawrence, Matthew Pons, and David Taylor, she co-edited the book Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey. She is also an editor of Knots, Links, Spatial Graphs, and Algebraic Invariants.