She is chair of the Congress of the Mathematical Association of America and, as such, serves on its board of directors and the Section Visitors Program (Invited Speakers).
[2] Her doctoral research concerned group theory;[3] she has also published in mathematics education.
She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1996; her dissertation, supervised by Martin Isaacs, was Subgroups with the Character Restriction Property and Normal Complements.
[3] In 2004, Dorée won a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America.
[1][5] In 2019, she received a Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.