Shanna Dobson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Humanities and Sciences
calstatela.edu/faculty/shanna-dobson
Biography
Dr. Shanna Dobson is an Assistant Professor at ArtCenter College of Design, Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvey Mudd College, and Lecturer at Cal State LA. She is Chair of Faculty Council and Section Chair of the SoCal-Nevada Section of the MAA.
Dr. Dobson received her PhD in Mathematics (summa cum laude) from the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests are Fractal and Arithmetic Geometry, and Topos Theory.
Dr. Dobson’s graduate research was generously supported by an NSF Mathematical Sciences Graduate Research Fellowship. She was a participant in the Institute for Advanced Study Women and Mathematics Program and Ambassadorship.
Her edited volumes include:
Local Langlands Conjectures and Noncommutative Geometry. In Contemporary Mathematics. (Proc. of the AMS Special Session on Local Langlands Conjectures and Noncommutative Geometry, JMM 2026). Igor Nikolaev and Shanna Dobson (Eds.) (2026). American Mathematical Society. To appear.
Cutting EDGE Mathematics, Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Program, a Special Collection in Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Springer). 2025.
Women in MathArt: Research, Creativity, and Teaching (AWMS Vol. 34). Dobson, Shanna (Ed.) (2024). Springer.
Dr. Dobson’s work champions creativity and innovation in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She examines the intersections of mathematics with continental philosophy, neuroscience, and the arts
Mathematics is an Imaginarium.
Classes
- HSCI-273-01: Quantum Weirdness & Cosmology
- HSCI-260-01: Pattern Formation in Nature
- HSCI-283-01: Designing a Time Machine