Rate My Professor Meighan Dillon

Professor Meighan Dillon is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mathematics at Kennesaw State University, retiring in December 2018 after a career exceeding three decades in mathematics education. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in Mathematics, magna cum laude, with a minor in Philosophy from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Dillon began teaching in 1982 as a graduate student instructor at the University of Virginia and later held positions at Duke University, Indiana State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and l'Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard in France. Over 26 years, she taught at Southern College of Technology, which became Southern Polytechnic State University and then part of Kennesaw State University, adapting to three office changes and one building relocation during her tenure there.

Dillon's research interests include Lie theory, geometry, the history of mathematics, and links between mathematics, art, and culture. Key publications feature her book Geometry Through History: Euclidean, Hyperbolic, and Projective Geometries (Springer International Publishing, 2018); "Constructing Affine Lie Algebras" in Communications in Algebra (2017); "Projective Geometry for All" in The College Mathematics Journal (2014); and Linear Geometry with Computer Graphics, co-authored with John Loustau (Marcel Dekker, 1993). She also developed A Second Course in Linear Algebra, used in her proof-based Math 4260 course, and published "Geometry and Affine Lie Algebras" in the Journal of Algebra (1990). In the Mathematics department, she instructed courses such as Linear Algebra I (Math 3260) and II (Math 4260), Modern Algebra I (Math 4361), Geometry (Math 3696), Introductory Real Analysis I and II (Math 3320/3321), Ordinary Differential Equations (Math 2306), Vector Analysis (Math 4407), Capstone (Math 4451), and Calculus sequences. Dillon founded and advised PME@KSU, the local Pi Mu Epsilon chapter.