• PhD, University of California, Berkeley
• MA, University of California, Berkeley
• BS, University of Maryland

• Liberal Arts Mathematics
• Calculus I
• Topics in Mathematics: Symbolic Logic
• Probability and Statistics
• Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
• Special Study: Introduction to Analysis
• Core: Enduring Questions
• Modes of Inquiry
• Learning Clusters
  • California Energy Crisis 
  • Water and Energy Issues 
  • Mathematical Modeling

• Valuation Theory, Ordered Fields and Quadratic Forms
• Ducci Sequences and Related Recursions

• The Space of R-places on a Rational Function Field (with Ron Brown), Journal of Algebra 2021
• Brown, Ron, and Jonathan L. Merzel. “The Space of Real Places on R(x,y).” Annales Mathematicae Silesianae 32, no. 1 (September 2018): 99–131.
• "The main invariant of a defectless polynomial" (with Ron Brown), Journal of Algebra and its Applications 2013
• "Invariants of Defectless Irreducible Polynomials" (with Ron Brown), Journal of Algebra and its Applications, 2010
• "A Class of Left Ideals of the Steenrod Algebra" (with Inga Johnson), Homology, Homotopy and Applications 2007
• "The Number of Ducci Sequences with Given Period" (with Ron Brown), Fibonacci Quarterly 2007
• "The Length of Ducci’s Four-Number Game" (with Ron Brown), 2004
• “Limiting behavior in Ducci sequences,” (w/Ron Brown) Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 2003
• “Rational places on algebraic function fields over generalized closed fields,” (w/Ron Brown) Journal of Algebra, 1995
• “Separating hyperplanes for convex sets over ordered fields,” Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 1984
• “Quadratic forms over fields with finitely many orderings,” Contemporary Mathematics, 1982

• 2000-present, Professor at SUA 
• 1999-2000, Visiting Professor, Mills College (joint appointment w/Holy Names College)
• 1994-2000, Professor, Holy Names College
• 1984-1994, Associate Professor, Holy Names College
• 1980-1984, Assistant Professor, Holy Names College

Faculty Mentor Award, 1988