Before joining the UNM faculty in 2005, she taught at Fresno State for two years, and before that, she was a graduate student at Indiana University, where she earned her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science. Mary’s research focuses on the interplay of philosophy, mathematics, and science in the early modern period, and in the work of Descartes, Newton, and Kant, in particular. She also has a strong interest in questions concerning the cooperation between the history of science and the philosophy of science and in questions about how history of philosophy, science, and mathematics might be fruitfully integrated into current debates in philosophy of science.