Ismar Volic

Ismar Volic is a Professor and Chair of Mathematics and the Director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College. He received a B.A. from Boston University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University. His research is in algebraic topology and social choice theory. He is the author of many articles and three books and has delivered more than two hundred lectures in some twenty countries. His writing has appeared in publications such as The Hill, TIME, and LitHub. He is the author, most recently, of Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation.