I’m MathDwight, the people’s mathematician!
Yo! It was extremely hot, and I was sweating profusely during the interview!
My name is Dwight Anderson Williams II, PhD. The culture of my work environment has led to more [Dr./Professor] Williams references. My preference is Dwight. So, some use Dr. Dwight to mix it all in. All are fine by me!
Who am I (Axioms)
I’m influenced by Blackness and measure success/failure by my support/obstruction to the liberation of Black people—thus all people. As a professor, specifically one at a Traditionally Black Institute (or HBCU), I teach people about mathematics while aware of certain societal and internal conflicts of being a Black person in the United States. My hope is that I guide an experience that encourages the revolutionary and the librarian alike. My hope is that they organize together—have hope in turning the abstract to concrete, whether groups, rings, or algebras or their fight for justice, freedom, and love.
Somewhere along the line I’m supposed to grade people’s work, and I don’t want to be a distraction with my limited assessments but add to a walk influencing the world to be. Guiding me is a mission-inspired claim, the compass of a regularly calibrated axiomatic practice, and recordings of helpful landmarks and reminders: Love for the othered.
And to my hoopers, ball is life!
What I do (Vita)
Currently, I work as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor (since Fall 2023) in the Department of Mathematics at the great Morgan State University.
I conduct research specializing in supermathematics and combinatorics: I study superalgebras at the intersection of representation theory with mathematical physics. Plus, I share my joy of describing combinatorial objects as generalized parking functions.
In teaching students, I utilize Padlet classroom (reserved access) for an online graduate algebra course (MATH 505) and an online undergraduate algebra course (MATH 413). I maintain a classroom Overleaf project (reserved access) for teaching students in the sequel (MATH 506) to the online graduate algebra course. In statistics courses (MATH 431 and MATH 432), I also instruct students studying for actuarial exams with the aid of Coaching Actuaries.
