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Patrick Bahls

Associate chair, liberal arts

Education

  • Ph.D., mathematics, Vanderbilt University
  • M.S., mathematics, University of Denver
  • B.S., mathematics, University of Denver

Credentials

  • Professor of liberal arts, 2022–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Professor of mathematics and director, 2020–22, UNC Asheville Prison Education Program
    Professor of mathematics and director, 2016–20, University Honors Program
    Associate professor of mathematics and director, 2012–16, University Honors Program
    Associate professor of mathematics, 2010–12
    Assistant professor of mathematics, 2005–10, University of North Carolina Asheville
  • VIGRE research assistant professor, 2002–05, Department of Mathematics, University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Graduate teaching assistant, 1998–2002, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  • Graduate teaching assistant, 1996–98, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Denver, Denver, CO

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Community Connector Award, University of North Carolina Asheville, Spring 2021
  • Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship Award, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Spring 2020
  • Recipient, Best Woke Supporting Father Figure Award, bestowed by UNC Asheville students studying abroad in Ecuador, Summer 2019
  • Recipient, Distinguished Teacher of the Year, UNC Asheville, 2014–15, May 2015
  • Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poetry Fellow (mentor: Richard Chess), North Carolina Poetry Society, Fall 2013–Spring 2014
  • Consultant, Department of Mathematics, Texas A& M International University, post-tenure review mentor, Fall 2013
  • Consultant, Louisiana Mathematics and Science Teachers' Institute (LaMSTI), NSF-supported project based in the Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Spring 2013–present
  • Writer in residence, Wildacres Retreat Center, Little Switzerland, NC, August 2013
  • Recipient, Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award, UNC Asheville, 2011–12, May 2012
  • Recipient, Award for Teaching Excellence, Natural Sciences Faculty, 2010–11, University of North Carolina, Asheville, May 2011
  • Nominee, Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award, UNC Asheville, 2010–11
  • Recipient, Award for Excellent Teaching, Untenured Faculty, 2008–09, University of North Carolina, Asheville, May 2009
  • Mathematical Association of America Southeast Section Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member (inaugural awardee), March 2009
  • Nominee, Outstanding Teaching Award, UNC Asheville, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 (deferred nomination in 2009 and 2011)
  • Project NExT Dolciani Fellow, 2005–06
  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Spring 2005)
  • VIGRE Postdoctoral Assistant Professorship, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002¬–05

Organizations

  • North Carolina Political Science Association, 2022–present
  • Appalachian Studies Association, 2021–22
  • North Carolina Honors Association, 2012–20
  • Southern Regional Honors Council, 2012–20
  • National Collegiate Honors Council, 2012–20
  • Council of Writing Program Administrators, 2011–present
  • National Council of Teachers of English, 2011–present
  • Philological Association of the Carolinas, 2011–15
  • Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, 2010–12
  • Carolinas Writing Program Administrators, 2008–present
  • American Mathematical Society, 1996–present
  • Mathematical Association of America, 1996–present
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1996–present

Publications and presentations

  • "Incorporating Indigenous ways of coming to know and living with nature into a college-level geometry course," submitted to InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2022.
  • "History erased: The intersection between redlining and historic preservation," with K. Gordon
  • and E. LeClaire, 2021.
  • "The unimodality of the independence polynomials of highly-nonregular trees," with S. Guess, 2021.
  • "The Dollar-a-Lot Program: Examining the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville’s attempts to redevelop neighborhoods impacted by urban renewal," 2021.
  • "Contracts for honors credit: Balancing access, equity, and opportunities for authentic learning," Honors in Practice 16, 171–196, 2020.
  • "Coming together on mass incarceration: A community conversation on Michelle Alexander’s The new Jim Crow," with B. Bailey, L. Broderick, R. Criser, J. D. Jones, L. Meadows, and R. Parsons, Public: A Journal of Imagining America 5, no. 2, 2019.
  • "Opening doors: Facilitating transfer students’ participation in honors," Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 19, no. 2, 73¬¬–100, Fall/Winter 2018.
  • "Unimodality of the independence polynomials of non-regular caterpillars," with B. Ethridge and L. Szabo, Australas. J. Combin. 71, no. 1, 104–112, 2018.
  • "Got privilege?: Examining an honors capstone activity on diversity, equity, and inclusion," with R. Chapman, Honors in Practice 13 (2017) 89–105, 2017.
  • "A devilish dictionary: Exploring the definitions of nonwords," with E. Reed, Postscript 30, Spring 2016.