Allison Henrich (born 1980)[1] is an American mathematician specializing in knot theory and also interested in undergraduate-level mathematics research mentorship.
[2] Henrich entered college planning for an undergraduate teaching career,[3] graduating in 2003 from the University of Washington with a double major in mathematics and philosophy.
[7] She is also an editor of Knots, Links, Spatial Graphs, and Algebraic Invariants (with Erica Flapan, Aaron Kaestner, and Sam Nelson, American Mathematical Society, 2017).
In 2015, the Mathematical Association of America gave Henrich their Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, and also their Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award for expository excellence for her article "Unknotting unknots" coauthored with Louis Kauffman.
[8] The award citation for the Alder Award cited her work in interactive learning, in guiding undergraduate mathematics students to become mentors to elementary school students, and in founding a summer research program at for underrepresented undergraduates, hosted at Seattle University.