Dr. Ximena Catepillan

Dr. Ximena Catepillán joined the board in 2021. Catepillán began her teaching career at Universidad de Magallanes by the Strait of Magellan in Chile. She earned a master’s degree in mathematics at Universidad de Santiago, Chile, and a Master of Science at the University of Iowa before obtaining a doctorate in Mathematics at the same institution.

Catepillán retired from Millersville University in August 2020 after teaching mathematics for 29 years. Between 2006 and 2019, she taught numerous ethnomathematics courses for Millersville University students with archaeologists from the Maya Exploration Center at the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Currently, she teaches a graduate ethnomathematics course at Universidad de Santiago, Chile, and is actively working in ethnomathematics with a focus on the Pre-Columbian Americas. In 2015, Catepillán co-wrote the textbook Mathematics in a Sample of Cultures by Kendall-Hunt, for her ethnomathematics courses. The second edition of the book was published in 2018.

Catepillán is the past chair of the Eastern Pennsylvania & Delaware section of the Mathematical Association of America; she is currently serving on a variety of committees at the section and at the national level. She previously served two terms on the foundation board by the appointment of Dean Edward Shane. Catepillán has been a donor to Millersville University since 1992 who also contributed to the Dr. Rosario Caminero Scholarship Endowment.