Kevin Beanland is a professor of mathematics at Washington & Lee University, where he also serves as associate dean of administrative affairs for the College.

Kevin grew up in an Army family and earned his Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2002. He then attended the University of South Carolina, where he studied functional analysis and, in particular, Banach space theory under George Androulakis. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in 2006.

Kevin was a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at Amherst College for one year before taking a tenure-track position at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was promoted to associate professor of mathematics in 2012 and joined the faculty at Washington & Lee University in 2013. Since then, he has served on the President’s Advisory Committee, Faculty Executive Committee, and University Committee on Inclusiveness and Campus Climate. He was promoted to professor in 2018 and joined the dean’s office in 2022.

During his career, Kevin has benefited from grants from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Science Foundation and has been a visiting scholar at the National Technical University of Athens, Jagiellonian University, and Vienna University of Technology, amongst other institutions. For more than a decade and a half, Kevin has co-organized the Virginia Operator Theory and Complex Analysis Meeting (VOTCAM).

Kevin is married to the novelist, Rachel Beanland, and they have three children.

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