Rate My Professor Douglas Mupasiri

Douglas Mupasiri, Ph.D., is Department Head and Professor of Mathematics in the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). He joined the Department of Mathematics in 1993 as an Assistant Professor during the 1993-1994 academic year. Over the years, he advanced to Associate Professor in 2001, Professor in 2009, Interim Department Head from 2009 to 2014, and permanent Head since the 2014-2015 academic year. Additional roles include Coordinator of Graduate Recruitment and Retention in 2006-2007 and Provost Administrative Fellow in fall 2009. His Ph.D. dissertation was completed at Northern Illinois University.

Mupasiri's research interests encompass functional analysis, including Banach space theory and locally convex space theory, measure theory, topology, descriptive set theory, and probability theory. Select publications include "Complex Convexity in Lebesgue-Bochner Function Spaces" (Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1996, with P. N. Dowling and Zhibao Hu), "Complex Extreme Measurable Selections" (Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, 1995), "A Note on the Existence of Shape-Preserving Projections" (Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 2007, with M. P. Prophet), "A Grothendieck Compactness Principle for the Mackey Dual Topology" (Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2014, with P. N. Dowling), and "The Common Vision Project: Four Reactions" (Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 2017, with W. Y. Vélez, A. Cohen, and P. Bremser). He was selected as a Project NExT Fellow by the Mathematical Association of America in 1994 and named to Project Kaleidoscope for the 21st century in 1999. Mupasiri has chaired the American Mathematical Society Committee on Education, participated in the Math Alliance, organized conferences like the Exchange of Mathematical Ideas, secured NSF grants to support minority STEM students through tutoring and mentoring, and delivered talks on topological properties of Banach spaces.