Dr. Barnard earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, and then earned her PhD in Mathematics from North Carolina State University in 2017. Before joining the faculty at DePaul, Dr. Barnard was a Zelevinsky Research Instructor at Northeastern University in Boston, where she earned an award for outstanding teacher of first year engineering students.
Dr. Barnard's research mainly focuses on the combinatorics of posets, and her work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, the Annals of Combinatorics, and Algebraic Combinatorics.