Michelle R Montgomery

There is still a need for research practices that promote trustworthiness and respect for less powerful participants.

The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience

Michelle R. Montgomery (enrolled Haliwa Saponi/descendant Eastern Band Cherokee) is associate professor and chair in the Division of Social and Historical Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, the assistant director for the Office of Undergraduate Education, and the Indigenous curriculum and community advisor for the School of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma. Montgomery’s successes include transparent and trustworthy collaborations with transboundary Indigenous scholars and communities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and the broader discipline; practice of Indigenous knowledges’ connection to climate justice; and Indigenous pedagogy through a lens of ecocritical race theory.