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EDUCATION:Lancaster University, B.A., 2000; University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 2005.
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Educator and writer. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, teaching assistant, 2002-03; Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, lecturer, 2006; Montana State University, Bozeman, visiting assistant professor, 2007-08; Michigan State University, East Lansing, assistant professor of history, 2008–, director of Science and Society program, 2014-16. Has organized conferences and presented papers at conferences and colloquia and invited lectures at various institutions.
MEMBER:Animal Studies Institute; History of Science Society; International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology; American Historical Association; Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies.
AWARDS:Edwin T. Layton Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Minnesota, Program for the History of Science and Technology, 2003; Montana State University, NSF postdoctoral fellow, 2006-07; Animals and Society Course Award, Humane Society of the United States, 2007; Animals and Society Institute fellow, North Carolina State University, 2007; Lilly Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University, 2012-13; National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 2012-13; Lyman Briggs Distinguished Faculty Certificate, 2013; Science and Society at State Collaborative Grant Award, Michigan State University, 2015-16.
WRITINGS
Has contributed chapters to books, including The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Gale, Cengage Learning (Florence, KY), 2007; Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies across Disciplines, edited by M. DeMello, Lantern Books (New York, NY), 2010; and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought, edited by M. Ruse, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 2013. Has contributed articles and reviews to journals, including Endeavour, Journal of the History of Biology, British Journal for the History of Science, and Quarterly Review of Biology.
SIDELIGHTS
Georgina M. Montgomery received a B.A. in history from Lancaster University, in Lancashire, England, in 2000 and a Ph.D. in history of science and technology from the University of Minnesota in 2005. She worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota from 2002 to 2003 and then spent a year as a lecturer at Seattle Pacific University. She was visiting assistant professor at Montana State University from 2007 to 2008 and then, in 2008, began working at Michigan State University as assistant professor in the Department of History. Montgomery also served as director, from 2014 to 2016, of Science and Society, a group focused on fostering interdisciplinary collegial collaboration among teachers interested in research and teaching that includes both science and social science.
From 2006 to 2007, Montgomery served as NSF postdoctoral fellow at Montana State University, and in 2007 she was an Animals and Society Institute fellow at North Carolina State University. She has organized conferences and presented papers at conferences and colloquia and invited lectures at various institutions.
Montgomery’s research interests are in the history of field science in primatology and animal behavior studies, as well as the broader related issues of race, gender, and globalization. She has contributed chapters to books, including The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies across Disciplines, and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought, and articles and reviews to journals, including Endeavour, Journal of the History of Biology, British Journal for the History of Science, and Quarterly Review of Biology.
Drawing on the 2009 conference Animals: Past, Present and Future, which she organized at Michigan State University, Montgomery, with coeditor Linda Kalof, chose ten essays for inclusion in Making Animal Meaning, published in 2011. A reviewer in Reference & Research Book News commented that the contributions to this volume establish the “vibrancy of the emerging field of animal studies.” D.A. Brass, writing in Choice, remarked that the book focuses “not so much on animal lives as . . . on the impact that animals have on human culture.” Brass thought that the book would be useful for those with an interest in “anthropocentric humanism.”
In 2015, Montgomery published Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science, which offers an in-depth study of the development of the scientific discipline of primatology. L.K. Sheeran reported in Choice that Montgomery follows the history from its early days as a provenance of “thrill seekers” to the present day, with professional research teams that include native peoples as key personnel. Sheeran applauded the volume as “required reading for primatologists and primate care givers at all educational levels.” Louise Barrett, in a review for BioScience, drew attention to the “shifts and tensions in the way the term naturalistic has been used over time,” as Montgomery’s book “charts how the voices of indigenous researchers made themselves heard in primate studies.” Montgomery, she stated, “packs in a wealth of detail” and “offers a number of perceptive insights.”
With Mark A. Largent, Montgomery coedited A Companion to the History of American Science, published in 2016. This collection of essays covers fields as widely ranging as astronomy, agriculture, chemistry, and eugenics, highlighting events in American history that influenced the development of science and science policy.
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
BioScience, March, 2017, Louise Barrett, review of Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science, pp. 309-310.
Choice, July, 2012, D.A. Brass, review of Making Animal Meaning, p. 2090; April, 2016, L.K. Sheeran, review of Primates in the Real World, p. 1191.
Reference & Research Book News, April, 2012, review of Making Animal Meaning.
ONLINE
Georgina M. Montgomery Home Page, http://georginamontgomery.weebly.com (March 23, 2017).
Michigan State University, Lyman Briggs College Web site, http://www.lymanbriggs.msu.edu/ (March 23, 2017), author profile.
Michigan State University Web site, http://history.msu.edu/ (March 23, 2017), author profile.
Georgina M. Montgomery, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department: HPS
Address: E-185 Holmes
Phone: (517) 432-1655
Email: montg165@msu.edu
Dr. Georgina M. Montgomery received her PhD in the History of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota in 2005. After teaching for two years at Montana State University, she joined Lyman Briggs College (75% appointment) and History (25% appointment) in the fall of 2008. Her research focuses on the history of field science, particularly the development of field methods and sites within primatology and animal behavior studies. Primatology is an international science and therefore her research also engages with issues of race, gender and globalization.
Georgina M. Montgomery organized the international and interdisciplinary conference Animals: Past, Present and Future in April of 2009. Ten of the fifty-three papers presented at that conference are included in the volume, Making Animal Meaning, which Montgomery co-edited with Linda Kalof, Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Montgomery’s other publications include articles for the Journal for the History of Biology and Endeavour, book chapters for Teaching the Animal and a chapter on Darwin and Gender for the Cambridge University Press’ encyclopedia on Darwin. Montgomery also has a book manuscript (in progress) entitled, Primates in the Real World: Making Primatology Scientific.
Personal Web Page
Montgomery in the News:
MSU Today article on Drs. Montgomery, Bellon and Largent’s contributions to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin (2013):
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2013/faculty-evolve-into-authors-for-darwin-book/
A story in MSU Today about a research project Dr. Montgomery is working on as Co-Pi for an NSF grant to examine diversity in science teams in relation to ethical behaviors: http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/diversity-could-lead-to-ethical-behaviors-among-scientists/
Biography:
Ph.D, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, 2005
Teaching:
Montgomery teaches a range of courses on the history of field science, gender and science, and the history of primatology and animal behavior studies. Her classes often involve student-led learning, learning teams, digital projects, and experiential learning, including field trips on and off campus.
For Examples of Undergraduate Research Projects Produced in Montgomery’s LBC 336 Gender and Evolution Class Click Here: lbc.msu.edu/Courses/LB336.cfm
For Examples of Undergraduate Research Published on Montgomery’s Women in Science Digital Collection Click Here: www.womeninscience.history.msu.edu
Grants:
NSF STS Dissertation Improvement Grant to support 8 months of fieldwork in Amboseli, Kenya, performed by Amanda Lewis (Montgomery’s Graduate Student in the Department of History)
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, Fall 2010
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, Summer 2009
CASID/WID Award for Curriculum Development, Spring 2009
Culture and Animals Foundation Research Grant, Spring 2008
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2004-2005
Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, University of Minnesota, 2003-2004
Faculty Affiliations:
Center for Gender in Global Context, Michigan State University, Core Faculty
Animal Studies Specialization, Michigan State University, Affiliated Faculty
Science, Technology, Environment, and Public Policy, Michigan State University, Affiliated Faculty
Honors
2013 -Lyman Briggs Distinguished Faculty Certificate
2013 -Selected as “One of the Top 25 Women Professors in Michigan” by onlineschoolsmichigan.com
2012 -Lilly Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University, 2012--2013
2007 -Animals and Society Course Award, The Humane Society of the United States (annual award for academic excellence in course design and instruction)
2003 -Edwin T. Layton Award for Outstanding Teaching (graduate student teaching award, Program for the History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota)
Grants
Michigan State University Science and Society at State Collaborative Grant Award, (PI: Patricia Soranno, Co-PIs: Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Kevin Elliott, Georgina Montgomery, Pang-Ning Tan), Conceptions of Good Science in a Data-Rich World [2015 -2016] $10,000
National Science Foundation, (Elliott, Cheruvelil, Montgomery, Settles, Soranno), Ethical Standards and Practices of Environmental Scientists: Does Team Diversity Matter? [2014 -2019] $600,000
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, (Montgomery), Creating Amboseli National Park: Contesting Maasai Pastoralism and Saving Wildlife in Kenya [2012 -2013] $17,924
Michigan State University Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives. Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant Program, (Kendra Cheruvelil, Cori Fata-Hartley, Aaron M. McCright, Georgina Montgomery), Discovering Diversity, Creating Inclusion: An Inquiry into Diversity and Science [2009 -2009] $14,409
Articles
2013 ‘Gender,’ in M. Ruse, ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2010 'History from Below: Animals as Historical Subjects,' in M. DeMello, ed., Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies Across Disciplines. New York: Lantern Books, 2010 (with Linda Kalof).
2009 ' 'Infinite Loneliness': The Life and Times of Miss Congo,' Endeavour 33.3 (2009): 101-05.
2005 'Place, Practice and Primatology: Clarence Ray Carpenter, Primate Communication and the Development of Field Methodology, 1931-1945,' Journal of the History of Biology 38.3 (2005): 495-533.
Books
Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science book image
Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore and Creating Primate Science
The opening of this vital new book centers on a series of graves memorializing baboons killed near Amboseli National Park in Kenya in 2009--a stark image that emphasizes both the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects and the intensely human qualities of the animals. Primates in the Real World goes on to trace primatology’s shift from short-term expeditions designed to help overcome centuries-old myths to the field’s arrival as a recognized science sustained by a complex web of international collaborations. Considering a series of pivotal episodes spanning the twentieth century, Georgina Montgomery shows how individuals both within and outside of the scientific community gradually liberated themselves from primate folklore to create primate science. Achieved largely through a movement from the lab to the field as the primary site of observation, this development reflected an urgent and ultimately extremely productive reassessment of what constitutes "natural" behavior for primates.
Pages: 176
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Date Published: September 2015
ISBN-13: 978-0813937366
Making Animal Meaning (The Animal Turn) book image
Making Animal Meaning (The Animal Turn)
An elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human–animal relationship. The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning–making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human–animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection — vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption — these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.
Pages: 312
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Date Published: December 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1611860160
Georgina M. Montgomery
montgomery_profileDr. Georgina M. Montgomery received her PhD in the History of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota in 2005. After teaching for two years at Montana State University, she joined Lyman Briggs College (75% appointment) and History (25% appointment) in the fall of 2008. Her research focuses on the history of field science, particularly the development of field methods and sites within primatology and animal behavior studies. Primatology is an international science and therefore her research also engages with issues of race, gender and globalization. Montgomery is interested in supervising graduate students interested in pursuing these kind of research areas at Michigan State University.
Georgina M. Montgomery organized the international and interdisciplinary conference Animals: Past, Present and Future in April of 2009. Ten of the fifty-three papers presented at that conference are included in the volume, Making Animal Meaning, which Montgomery co-edited with Linda Kalof, Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Montgomery also has a book (2015, University of Virginia Press) entitled, Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore, Creating Primate Science and co-edited The Companion for the History of American Science with Mark Largent for Blackwell Press.
Montgomery’s other publications include articles for the Journal for the History of Biology and Endeavour, book chapters for Teaching the Animal and a chapter on Darwin and Gender for the Cambridge University Press’ encyclopedia on Darwin.
For more info about Dr. Montgomery’s research and teaching see: http://georginamontgomery.weebly.com
Position: Associate Professor
Field: Science/Medicine, Women & Gender
Region: Africa, United States
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Office: 334 Old Horticulture
Email: montg165@msu.edu
HISTORY OF PRIMATOLOGY
Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore, Creating Primate Science (University of Virginia Press) opens with a stark image: a series of graves memorializing baboons killed during a 2009 drought in Amboseli, Kenya. The graves symbolize the close emotional connection between primate researchers and their subjects, as well as the intensely human quality of the animals. The bond between researcher and subject is one thread running through my book, as I argue that the history of field primatology is best understood as a series of attempts by individuals within and outside of the traditional scientific community to escape primate folklore and create primate science.
For more on Primates in the Real World or to buy a copy click here
INCLUSION & SCIENCE
I have long been interested in topics of gender and science, especially issues of gender in relation to evolution and primate studies. For example, I published “Darwin and Gender” in Michael Ruse’s Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. My book also reveals that the science of field primatology has long relied on the contributions of women, both with and without formal scientific training. Indeed, primatology has become known by some scholars as the “goddess discipline” due to the large number of women in primatology today.
ACTIVE GRANTS
Two active grant projects relate to my interest in inclusion and science:
1) During 2014-2019, I will work as co-pi on a NSF Cultivating Ethical STEM grant to analyze how diversity in science teams impacts practices and behaviors related to the sharing of credit, data, and other resources.
2) I am a team member of a 2014-2015 National Endowment for the Humanities project to create a museum exhibit, book, and website on women in paleontology, a science which has failed to attract or retain many women scientists.
My academic interest in the similarities and differences between humans and other primates also migrates into my home where I enjoy using Montessori inspired approaches to create educational opportunities for my young daughter.
Now I am a parent, I have evolved an interest in the history of science education. This interest has informed my teaching, as well as my choice of activities for my child.
Some students in my LB 336 Gender and Evolution course have created websites on the topic of gender and science education. For example, see: http://growingupgendered.weebly.com
During 2014-2016 I am serving as director of Science and Society @ State, which seeks to promote interdisciplinary research and teaching that draws on STEM and science studies (studies of science using social science and/or humanities approaches and scholarship).
In the fall of 2014, we launched a pilot for an internal grant program providing support for interdisciplinary teams working on external grant proposals. We are also partnering with other exciting groups on campus - including CREATE 4 STEM, STEM Alliance, and the Center for Innovation and Research - to promote interdisciplinary activities on campus.
During my career I have also served the university and my profession by serving on various committees. For example, I served on the Women's Advisory Committee to the Provost for three years, and I co-chaired the Women's Caucus for the History of Science Society for two years.
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Georgina M. Montgomery
Michigan State University
Department of History
montg165@msu.edu
Ph.D. 2005 Program in History of Science and Technology
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Montgomery
Dissertation: "Primates in the Real World: Place, Practice and the History of Field Primatology, 1924-1970"
Selected Awards:
Nominated for Michigan State University’s Alumni Award for Quality in Undergraduate Teaching, 2013 (under review)
Lilly Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University, 2012-2013
Lyman Briggs Distinguished Faculty Certificate, 2013
Nominated for Michigan State University’s Teacher-Scholar Award, 2011 and 2012
National Science Foundation, Science, Technology and Society Grant, 2012-2013 ($17, 924)
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, Fall 2010 ($11,000)
Selected Publications:
Georgina M. Montgomery, Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore, Creating Primate Science (under review)
Linda Kalof and Georgina M. Montgomery, eds., Making Animal Meaning (Michigan State University Press, 2011)
Georgina M. Montgomery, “Gender and Evolution” in Michael Ruse ed., Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
“Why Did The History of Science Society Conduct a Climate Survey?” Co-Authored with Constance Clark and Jay Malone for the HSS Newsletter, vol. 42, no. 2, April 2013.
Georgina M. Montgomery and Linda Kalof, “History from Below: Animals as Historical Subjects” in M. DeMello, ed., Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies Across Disciplines (Lantern Books, 2010)
Georgina M. Montgomery, “‘Infinite Loneliness:’ The Life and Times of Miss Congo,” Endeavour 33, no. 3 (2009): 101-105
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DR. GEORGINA M. MONTGOMERY
Lyman Briggs College Department of History
35 East Holmes Hall 325 Morrill Hall
East Lansing, MI 48825-1107 East Lansing, MI 48824
517-432-1655 517-432-8222 ext. 122
montg165@msu.edu
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, 2008 – Present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Montana State University, 2007-2008
Animals and Society Institute Fellow, North Carolina State University, Summer 2007
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Montana State University, 2006-2007
Lecturer, Seattle Pacific University, Winter 2006
Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, 2000-2003
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, 2005
Title: Primates in the Real World: Place, Practice and the History of Field Primatology,
1924-1970
Advisors: John Beatty and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Other Committee Members: Gregg Mitman, Mark Borrello and Anne Pusey
BA with Honors, History, Lancaster University, Lancashire, United Kingdom, 2000
Undergraduate Advisor: Paolo Palladino
PUBLICATIONS
Georgina M. Montgomery, Seeing Primates Scientifically (book manuscript in progress)
Linda Kalof and Georgina M. Montgomery, eds., Making Animal Meaning (Michigan
State University Press, Fall 2011), forthcoming
Georgina M. Montgomery and Linda Kalof, “History from Below: Animals as Historical
Subjects” in M. DeMello, ed., Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies Across
Disciplines (Lantern Books, 2010)
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Georgina M. Montgomery, “‘Infinite Loneliness:’ The Life and Times of Miss Congo,”
Endeavour 33, no. 3 (2009): 101-105
Georgina M. Montgomery, "Place, Practice and Primatology: Clarence Ray Carpenter,
Primate Communication and the Development of Field Methodology, 1931-
1945,"Journal of the History of Biology 38, no. 3 (2005): 495-533
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
Review of Amanda Rees The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of
Field Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), The British Journal
for the History of Science 43, no.3 (2010): 502-503
Review of Paula Young Lee, ed., Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse
(Durham, New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire Press, 2008), The Journal of
the History of Biology 42, no.1 (2009): 201-203
Review of Brian Luke, Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals (Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007), The Journal of the History of Biology 41, no.
4 (2008): 778-780
“Carpenter, Clarence Ray,” The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Florence, KY,
Gale Cengage, 2007)
“Fossey, Dian,” The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Florence, KY, Gale
Cengage, 2007)
Review of Donald A. Dewsbury, Monkey Farm: A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of
Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida 1930-1965 (Lewisburg, Bucknell University
Press, 2006), The Quarterly Review of Biology 81, no. 3 (2006): 266
COURSES TAUGHT
Michigan State University
The Human-Animal Boundary: Spring 2011
Gender and Evolution: Spring 2011
Gender, Sex, and Science in Popular Culture: Spring 2010
Analyzing Anthropomorphism: Spring 2010
Introduction to History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science: Fall 2009
People and Other Primates: Fall 2009
Introduction to History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science: Spring 2009
Animal Histories: Spring 2009
Technology and Culture: Fall 2008
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Montana State University
Modern Science: Spring 2008
Gender and Technology: Spring 2008
Other Animals: Spring 2008
Darwinian Revolution: Fall 2007
United States since 1940: Fall 2007
Animal Histories: Spring 2007
Darwinian Revolution (co-taught with historian of science Michael Reidy): Fall
2006
Seattle Pacific University
United States since 1876: Winter 2006
West and the World since 1500: Winter 2006
TEACHING AWARDS
Animals and Society Course Award, The Humane Society of the United States (Annual
Award for Academic Excellence in Course Design and Instruction), Fall 2007
Edwin T. Layton Award for Outstanding Teaching (Annual Award for Outstanding
Teaching by a Graduate Student in the Program for the History of Science and
Technology at the University of Minnesota), Spring 2003
PEDAGOLOGICAL TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Michigan American Council on Education Network for Women Leaders in Higher
Education, Summer 2010
Teaching Sexuality, Workshop Organizer, Fall 2009
Will This Be On The Test? Using Critical Thinking Concepts to Engage Deeply in
Thinking of the Discipline, Lilly Teaching Seminar, Fall 2009
Inclusive Leadership, Lecture by Present Simon, Women’s Resource Center, Fall 2009
Bogus & Beneficial Pedagogical Concepts: From Common Sense to Common Science in
Teaching and Learning, Lilly Teaching Seminar, Spring 2009
Civility in the Classroom, Lilly Teaching Seminar, Fall 2008
WebCT/Blackboard Website Design, Spring 2007
Preparing Future Faculty Program, Fall 2002
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
Organized the Animals: Past, Present and Future Conference: April 2009
(This interdisciplinary conference featured 53 presenters from 8 countries and was
funded by external grants and co-sponsorship by 16 MSU colleges, departments and
centers.)
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
“Trusting Friends:” Robert Mearns Yerkes and “Miss Congo,” History of Science Society
Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2008
“Race, Gender and Species in the Virungas: Dian Fossey and Wild Kingdom,” Film and
History Conference, Organized Session, Chicago, October 2008
“International Science on African Soil: The Multicultural Nature of Field Primatology,”
Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New York, March 2008
“Looking at Duck Rape through the Eyes of “isms”: Feminism, Speciesism and
Anthropomorphism,” Institute for Critical Animal Studies Annual Conference, Billings,
February 2008
“Situating Transnational Science: The History of the Amboseli Baboon Project, 1963-
Present,” Co-organized Session, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington
D.C., November 2007
“Contested Meanings of ‘Natural’ in Field Primatology, 1930-1970,” Co-organized
Session, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, November 2005
“Diverse Places for Primatological Studies: Robert Mearns Yerkes in the Private Estate
and Zoological Park,” Columbia History of Science Group, Friday Harbor, March 2005
“Place, Practice and Primatology: Clarence Ray Carpenter’s Early Field Studies, 1931-
1950,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Boston, November 2003
“Emotive Cries to Functional Calls: Clarence Ray Carpenter and his Technological
Tools,” Co-organized Session, International Society for History, Philosophy and Social
Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 2003
INVITED LECTURES
“Temporary Tombstones: What the death and burial of six baboons tells us about
primatology,” History of Science and Technology Colloquia, University of Minnesota,
April 2010
“The ‘Africanization’ of the Amboseli Baboon Project” The Center for Gender in Global
Context, Michigan State University, April 2010
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“Entering a Different World:” Learning to See Individuals in the Study of Primate
Behavior, 1926 to the present,” Behavioral Biology Seminar Series, Michigan State
University, October 2009
“The Life and Times of Miss Congo,” Animal Studies Seminar Series, Michigan State
University, February 2009
“Seeing Primates Scientifically: A Methodological History,” Department of
Anthropology Brown Bag Series, Michigan State University, November 2008
“The Role of the Media in (Pre)Conceptions of International Conservation,” Fisheries
and Wildlife 181, Michigan State University, October 2008
“Gender, Science, and the Media: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Primatology as a
‘Female Science,’” Presented with Sharon DeGraw, Lyman Briggs Speaker Series,
Michigan State University, September 2008
“Postcolonial Ecotourism, Feminism and the Species Question,” Roundtable, Women’s
Studies, Duke University, November 2007
“Critical Race Theory and Racism Today,” Native American Studies, Montana State
University, November 2007
“Situating Field Science in Physical Places and Social Spaces,” History Department,
Montana State University, April 2007
“Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall as Scientists and Cultural Icons,” Women’s Center,
Montana State University, March 2007
“Primatology in Popular Culture: The Invisibility of Indigenous Field Assistants,”
Natural History Film Department, Montana State University, March 2007
“Primate Studies: International Relationships and Questions of Identity,” Philosophy
Department, Montana State University, March 2007
“Primates in the Real World and the Meaning of Naturalness,” Colloquium, University of
Puget Sound, February 2005
“Animals Behaving Naturally: The Use of Experiment in Field Primatology,” History of
Science Colloquium, University of Washington, January 2005
“Conducting Science in the Field: Clarence Ray Carpenter and the Development of Field
Methodology, 1931-1950,” History of Science Colloquium, University of Washington,
October 2003
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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives,
Fall 2010
Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives,
Summer 2009
CASID/WID Award for Curriculum Development, Spring 2009
Culture and Animals Foundation Research Grant, Spring 2008
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2004-2005
Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, University of Minnesota, 2003-2004
FACULTY AFFILIATIONS
Center for Gender in Global Context, Michigan State University, Core Faculty
Animal Studies Specialization, Michigan State University, Affiliated Faculty
Environmental Science and Public Policy Program, Michigan State University, Affiliated
Faculty
Science, Technology, Environment, and Public Policy, Michigan State University,
Affiliated Faculty
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
Briggs Advisory Council, 2009-Present
Women’s Advisory Council to the Provost, 2008-Present
Diversity Advisory Committee to the Dean (Ad hoc), 2008-Present
Department of History Speaker Series, 2009-2010
Lyman Briggs Speaker Series, 2008-2010
Department of History Committee of Undergraduate Education, 2008-2009
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS
Human Animal Studies Executive Committee, Animal Studies Institute, 2009-Present
History of Science Society, 2000-Present
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International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, 2003-
Present
American Historical Association, 2004-Present
Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and
Science Studies (FEMMSS), 2007-Present
Making animal meaning
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Ten essays by contributors in cultural anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, and women's studies offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between humans and animals, demonstrating the vibrancy of the emerging field of animal studies. The essays explore how humans construct, configure, and negotiate the meaning of other animals in the social world. Part 1, on making new animal meanings, examines topics such as the kinetics of vermin and wildlife in southern Africa, and cannibalism, consumption, and kinship in animal studies. Part 2, on applying new animal meanings, considers topics such as hunting for the jaguar in the US and Mexico, the politics of pet obituaries, and representations of dog breeds and issues of race in popular culture. The book includes contemporary b&w photos and historical illustrations. Kalof teaches sociology and Montgomery teaches history at Michigan State University.
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Making animal meaning, ed. by Linda Kalof and Georgina M. Montgomery. Michigan State, 2011.197p bibl index afp ISBN 1611860164, S44.95; ISBN 9781611860160, $44.95
Making use of a historiographic approach, including consideration of relevant literature reaching as far back as medieval times, this book's contributors theorize about animal meaning (both metaphorical and literal) in modern society. In doing so, they cut across a broad geographic and chronologic segment of human culture. The overall perspective of the text is rooted in a philosophical foundation, embracing a historical periodization of society and culture. The book explores human-animal interactions, human values and interspecies kinship, and the social worth of animals in human society in sociopolitical, relativistic, humanistic, symbolic, ethnic, and metaphysical contexts. Ultimately, the focus of the text is not so much on animal lives as it is on the impact that animals have on human culture. The thrust of individual chapters and the extent to which authors remain on target vary considerably. Writing styles also vary greatly, ranging from lucid to so overly and needlessly complicated as to be virtually incomprehensible to anyone outside a narrow social science discipline. This book may be of value to readers interested in the impact of animals on human society, especially those working in the fields of anthropocentric humanism, history, and metaphysics. Summing Up: Recommended. ** Graduate students and researchers/faculty.--D. A. Brass, independent scholar
Brass, D.A.
Montgomery, Georgina M.: Primates in the real world: escaping primate folklore and creating primate science
L.K. Sheeran
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1191.
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Montgomery, Georgina M. Primates in the real world: escaping primate folklore and creating primate science. Virginia, 2015. 160p index afp ISBN 9780813937366 cloth, $25.00; ISBN 9780813937403 ebook, $25.00
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Montgomery (history, Michigan State Univ.) details the history of primatology's emergence as a scientific discipline within the context of popular culture's portrayals of primates and of the people who collected, lived with, and observed them. She concisely describes primatology's progression from a nascent discipline dominated by adventurers and thrill seekers who sometimes embellished accounts of sex and violence in primates, to the establishment of trained scientists specializing in field and laboratory primatology. The final phase of the discipline's development is ongoing and entails a shift from relying on indigenous people as trekkers and camp managers to their inclusion as members and leaders of research teams--a process that has been particularly important for establishing and maintaining long-term field sites in primates' native landscapes and in providing the longitudinal data that are vital to primatology. Readers who study and care for primates in captive and natural settings will benefit from a better understanding of how primatology developed and professionalized, and how popular views of primates influenced that process. General readers will gain a greater understanding of how science works. This book is required reading for primatologists and primate care givers at all educational levels; it will also be useful to anyone interested in wildlife. Summing Up: *** Highly recommended. All library collections.--L. K. Sheeran, Central Washington University