Maura Mast

Maura B. Mast is an Irish-American mathematician, mathematics educator, and academic administrator, specializing in differential geometry and quantitative reasoning. With Ethan D. Bolker, she is the author of the textbook Common Sense Mathematics. Mast is dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill, part of Fordham University.

Mast became a faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa in 1992. After visiting professorships at Northeastern University and Wellesley College, she moved to the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1998. There, in 2009, she became associate vice provost for undergraduate studies. In 2015 she came to Fordham University as the first female dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill. In 2022 she earned and was promoted to rank of full Professor at Fordham University.

Companies

• Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill Fordham University (2015)
• Special Assistant to the Provost University of Massachusetts Boston (2013 — 2015)
• Executive Board Member Massachusetts ACE National Network of Women Leaders (2013 — 2015)
• Associate Vice Provost UMass Boston (2009 — 2015)
• Associate Professor of Mathematics UMass Boston (1998 — 2015)
• ACE Fellow, 2012 - 2013 American Council on Education (2012 — 2013)
• Co-chair Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences (2009 — 2012)
• Clerk and Executive Board Member Association for Women in Mathematics (2003 — 2010)
• Chair Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Quantitative Literacy (2005 — 2007)