Annalisa Crannell is an American mathematician, and an expert in the mathematics of water waves, chaos theory, and geometric perspective.

[3] She entered Bryn Mawr College[4] intending to continue her language studies, but was inspired to change majors to mathematics by professor Mario Martelli, who noted her talent in a calculus class and encouraged her to take a senior-level class in partial differential equations as a freshman.

[3] She graduated in 1986, with magna cum laude honors,[4] and completed her Ph.D. in 1992 from Brown University, with Walter Craig as her doctoral advisor.

[5] She is the author or editor of the following books: Her recent research has included studies of perspective in art, such as in the engravings of Albrecht Dürer.

[13] The award recognizes outstanding mathematics teachers "whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions".