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Updated: July, 2006

	Home:	14241 Essenburg Drive, Holland, MI 49424-1657 U.S.A.
	Office:	Department of Mathematics, Hope College, 27 Graves Place, PO Box 9000, Holland, MI 49422-9000
	Phone:	office (616) 395-7522 fax (616) 395-7123 home (616) 399-4683
	E-mail:	pearson@hope.edu
	Web:	http://math.hope.edu/pearson/

Academic Preparation

1997-2003	Ph.D., Mathematics, Northwestern University
1995-1997	M.A. The Divinity School, The University of Chicago
1994-1995	Graduate Student, Chemistry, University of Michigan
1990-1994	B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Mathematics, Chemistry, Religion, St. Olaf College

Professional Experience

Summer 2005, 2006	Hope College REU mentor, Hope College
2003-present	Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Hope College       Math 131-01, 131-02, 341 (Fall 2006)       Math 231-01, 395 (Spring 2006)  +  Math 131-04, 231-01, 231-02(Fall 2005)       Math 132-01, 342 (Spring 2005)  +  Math 131-01, 131-02, 341 (Fall 2004)       Math 126, 231 (Spring 2004)  +   Math 132-01, 132-02, 341 (Fall 2003)
2001 - 2003	Instructor, Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies       Math 214-b, 216 (Summer 2003)   +  Math 214-a (Spring 2003)  +         Math 101 (Fall 2002)  +   Math 216 (Summer 2002)  +         Math 214-b (Spring 2002)  +   Math 214-a (Fall 2001)
2000 - 2001	GAANN Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University       Math 214-3 (Winter 2000, Winter 2001)
1997 - 2000	Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University
1995, 1998	Instructor, Chemistry Department St. Olaf College       Chemistry 126 (Summer 1995, Summer 1998)

Selected Talks

July 2006	Pew New Faculty Workshop, Hope College
May 2006	Michigan Project NExT Symposium, co-organizer
January 2006	Kalamazoo colloquium, Kalamazoo College
October 2005	WMU algebra seminar, Western Michigan University
April 2005	Michigan NExT, Alma College
April 2005	Calvin College Colloquium, Calvin College
April 2005	GVSU Seminar, Grand Valley State University
November 2004	Hope College Colloquium, Hope College
July 2004	Pew New Faculty Conference, Hope College
April 2003	Algebraic Topology Seminar, University of Illinois
March 2003	Algebraic Topology Seminar, University of Chicago
January 2003	Homotopy Theory Special Session, Joint AMS/MAA meetings, Baltimore, MD
November 2002	Algebraic Topology Seminar, Northwestern University
April 2002	Graduate Algebra Seminar, Northwestern University

Conferences

July 2006	Pew New Faculty Workshop, Hope College
May 2006	Michigan Project NExT, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
January 2006	Joint AMS/MAA Meetings, San Antonio, TX
November 2005	Pew Undergraduate Science Symposium, Chicago, IL
October 2005	HHMI Interdisciplinary Workshop, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
August 2005	Project NExT and MathFest, Albuquerque, NM
April 2005	Michigan NExT, Alma, MI
April 2005	Lower Michigan Mathematics Competition, Lansing, MI
February 2005	Midwest Topology Seminar, Calvin College
January 2005	Project NExT and Joint AMS/MAA meetings, Atlanta, GA
July - August 2004	Summer Session on Algebra and Homotopy Theory, University of Chicago
February 2004	Midwest Topology Seminar, Northwestern University
October 2003	Midwest Topology Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
July 2003	Pew New Faculty Conference, Hope College
February 2003	Midwest Topology Seminar, University of Illinois-Chicago
October 2002	Midwest Topology Seminar, University of Illinois-Chicago
April 2002	International Algebraic Topology Conference, Northwestern University