From Notices of the AMS
Susan Montgomery: A Journey in Noncommutative Algebra
by Yevgenia Kashina
Communicated by Steven Sam
Susan Montgomery was born in 1943 and grew up in Lansing, Michigan. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan where her advisor was J.E. McLaughlin, who inspired her interest in algebra. Having obtained her undergraduate degree in Mathematics in 1965, Susan received an NSF Graduate Fellowship and started her graduate studies at the University of Chicago. In 1969, she defended her Ph.D. thesis titled "The Lie Structure of Simple Rings with Involution of Characteristic 2" under the supervision of I.N. Herstein. She then spent one year at DePaul University. In 1970, Susan joined the faculty at the University of Southern California, where she currently is a professor.
Susan received multiple awards and recognition, including a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1984, an Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award from the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at USC in 1985, and a Gabilan Distinguished Professorship in Science and Engineering at USC in 2017--2020.
