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Aditya Adiredja
(uh·dee·tee·yuh uh·dirr·eh·juh)
Welcome and thank you for visiting my personal website. Here you can find information about my academic work, my life outside of academia, as well as other causes that I support. Feel free to drop me a line if you wish to connect or have any questions or concerns.
Ph.D. Mathematics Education
About
Parent, Math Teacher, Critical Scholar
My name is Aditya Adiredja (he/him/his), or as my students like to call me, Dr. Adi. I also chose doktoradi.com to reflect my first language. I emigrated from Indonesia to the United States with my mother when I was 15 years old. I am a proud queer first-generation student and now a professor.
Parenting
My husband, Alan and I are proud parents of two children. Both of our children were adopted from foster care. Being a first-time parent to a teen (at the height of the pandemic!) was one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences. Balancing parenting and my academic life is an ongoing process. Staying up to work after everyone is asleep is the new normal. We are also parents to our 8 year-old Great Dane, Ryoko and our 3 year-old American Pit, Todo it rarely gets boring in this house.
TEACHING
My pursuit of mathematics and a Ph.D. were motivated by my desire to become a teacher. I used to fail math in middle school and I have gotten to where I am because of the amazing mathematics teachers I had. In fact, it was Dr. Miriam Castroconde from Irvine Valley College who made me apply to UC Berkeley and told me not leave until I received my Ph.D. I am currently an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona where I regularly teach Linear Algebra and Number Theory.
RESEARCH
Earning a Ph.D. has given me power and an opportunity to speak up about inequities in mathematics education. My work in undergraduate mathematics prioritizes the concerns and needs of racial and ethnic minority students, especially those who are women, first-generation, and low-income. This is motivated by the reality that mathematics education continues to not serve Black and Brown students. In my scholarship I strive to create stories of success and mathematical excellence with minoritized students. I aim to dismantle pervasive deficit narratives that implicate us as perpetually underachieving and less able. In the age that we live now, an anti-racist approach to education is critical and necessary.
UA ENR2 Building
Contact Me
Mailing address: The University of Arizona, Department of Mathematics
ENR2 Rm S317, 1064 E. Lowell St., Tucson, AZ 85719
Phone: (520) 621-0978
E-mail: adiredja@math.arizona.edu