Rhonda Hatcher
Rhonda Lee Hatcher is an American mathematician whose research topics include analytic number theory and L-functions as well as topics in recreational mathematics. She is an emeritus associate professor of mathematics at Texas Christian University.
Education and career
Hatcher graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1980.She earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from Harvard University. Her dissertation, Heights and L-Series, was supervised by Benedict Gross.
After completing her doctorate, she taught at St. Olaf College in Minnesota for three years before moving to Texas Christian.
At Texas Christian, Hatcher served as the Faculty Athletics Representative from 1999 until 2023. She has also represented the Big 12 Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Committee on Academics. Within the committee, she took a minority position against a proposed rule change to allow students with high grade point averages to transfer to other schools and maintain their athletic eligibility, arguing that the rule would disproportionately penalize African-American students.