She works in Scotland as Senior Lecturer in History of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.
[3] After graduating magna cum laude from Hillsdale College, she completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Virginia.
[4] Her dissertation, Benjamin Peirce and the Promotion of Research-Level Mathematics in America: 1830–1880, was supervised by Karen Parshall.
[5] She returned to Hillsdale College as an assistant professor, also becoming the first mathematical research fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
[7] Kent was a 2017 recipient of the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award, with David Muraki, for their paper "A Geometric Solution of a Cubic by Omar Khayyam ... in Which Colored Diagrams Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners" in The American Mathematical Monthly.