About the author

Kathi Crow is an associate professor of mathematics at Salem State University.  She loves mathematics and traveling and is happiest when she can combine them. She taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt for two years and left (coincidentally) just before the Arab Spring. While in Egypt, she also taught in a summer research program for undergraduates at Cairo University. More recently, she spent a month in 2015 teaching at the University of Bung Hatta in Indonesia and is currently spending a sabbatical year as a Fulbright Scholar teaching at the University of Jordan. In the fall she taught a graduate course on Leavitt path algebras and in the spring she is teaching Modern Algebra.

In addition to teaching at universities around the world, she enjoys traveling for research. She has spent two six-week periods working in Spain - one in Barcelona in 2007 and the other in Malaga in 2008. Additionally, she has attended algebra conferences in France, India, and Portugal as well as throughout the US and each time has learned something new about mathematics and about cultures in different parts of the world.

Her research interests include noncommutative ring theory, especially skew group rings and Leavitt path algebras. Other interests include inquiry based learning and the internationalization of mathematics.

With abstract algebra students at the University of Bung Hatta in Padang, Indonesia

With Leavitt path algebra students at the University of Jordan in Amman