Amy Shell-Gellasch

Amy Shell-Gellasch is an Associate Professor of mathematics at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. She received her Doctor of Arts in Mathematics with a specialty in the History of Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000. During graduate school she attended the NSF funded Institute for the History of Mathematics in Washington DC. She has taught with Project SEED in the Detroit Public Schools, that the United States Military Academy, and at various colleges across the country. She co-founded the History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Society of America in 2001 and has been an officer of that organization since the time. In 2003 she started the HOM SIGMAA Student Paper Contest. She is also a volunteer researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History where she researches mathematical devices. She has several blog posts of her Smithsonian work at the NAMH “Oh Say Can You See” blog. She has taught mathematics to students from elementary to college. She publishes in the history of mathematics and its uses in teaching.