Megan M. Kerr

Megan Kerr is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College and a former Clare Boothe Luce Chair (1998–2004). Her research is in Riemannian geometry, specifically the global geometry of Lie groups. She studies invariant geometric structures, such as Einstein metrics, on homogeneous and low-cohomogeneity manifolds, which are examples of highly symmetric spaces.

Megan Kerr is a 1989 graduate of Wellesley College. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, under the supervision of Wolfgang Ziller. From 1995–1997, Megan Kerr held a John Wesley Young Research Instructorship at Dartmouth College, in a postdoctoral collaboration with Professor Carolyn Gordon. During the spring of 1998, Megan Kerr held a visiting position at the University of Arizona. In 2001–2002, Prof. Kerr enjoyed a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute and the hospitality of Brown University, where she was a Visiting Scholar.

At Wellesley College, Megan Kerr teaches courses in Topology, Geometry, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, as well as all levels of Calculus. She is delighted to be back at her alma mater and hopes to be a positive role model for her students.

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Profile last updated: 8/04