Karen Parshall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Karen Parshall

American historian of mathematics

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1955

Place of Birth: Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

Profession: mathematician, historian, university teacher, historian of mathematics

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Karen Hunger Parshall (born 1955, Virginia; née Karen Virginia Hunger) is an American historian of mathematics with an Erdos number of 3.
She is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and Department of Mathematics.
From 2009 to 2012, Parshall was the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts in Sciences at UVA, and from 2016 to 2019 she was the chair of the Corcoran Department of History.