James Barker Coykendall IV is an American mathematician.
Coykendall earned his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1989 and completed a doctorate at Cornell University in 1995.[1] His thesis, titled Normsets and Rings of Algebraic Integers, was overseen by Shankar Sen.[2] Coykendall's teaching career began the next year at North Dakota State University, where he was named James A. Meier Professor in 2003.[3] [4] Coykendall and Hal Schenck have served as editors of the Journal of Commutative Algebra since the publication's first issue in 2009.[5] Coykendall joined the faculty of Clemson University in 2013.[4]