Duane Cooper is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Morehouse College. His current research interests are in the mathematics of voting and representation, with particular interests in election procedures that allow for fair representation. In addition, he has experience and maintains interest in mathematics student and teacher development.

Foremost, Prof. Cooper is engaged in instruction and advisement of his students and service to his college. Beyond this work at his institution and in his department, which he chaired 2011-19, he was a member of the team of five directors of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program (MSRI-UP), 2007-22, and he currently is co-director of the SLMath Mathematically Advancing Young Undergraduates Program (MAY-UP), being piloted in 2023 in Atlanta. Over the years, he has been active with various professional organizations; these include the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the Benjamin Banneker Association (BBA), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), serving each on a committee or board. He has been a member and frequent research presenter at meetings of the Public Choice Society.

Prof. Cooper was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where he remained for college, receiving his BS in mathematics from Morehouse College and his MS in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1983. He received the PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. It was during his graduate years that he found his calling in education, the result of a variety of experiences teaching elementary, high school, and college students. Thus, he sought and received a postdoctoral appointment in both the Center for Mathematics Education and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, where he served for several years on the faculty before returning to Morehouse in 2002.