
Kevin Beanland is the Associate Dean of the College for Administrative Affairs and Professor of Mathematics at Washington & Lee University.
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 Banach space theory under George Androulakis and earned his Ph.D. 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, joined the faculty at Washington & Lee University in 2013, was promoted to professor in 2018. Since 2022, he has served as Associate Dean of Administrative Affairs for the College.
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.