Laura M. Montgomery, Ph.D
Anthropology, Michigan State University, 1989

Selected Professional Positions:

• Associate Professor of Anthropology, Westmont College, 1990-present
• Reviewer, Human Organization, 1997-present
• Reviewer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1994
• Associate Director, Human Needs and Global Resources Program, Wheaton College, 1986-87
• Assistant Professor of Sociology/Anthropology, Wheaton College, 1984-87
• Co-chair of Anthropology of Higher Education Committee, Council on Anthropology and Education (American Anthropological Association)

Areas of Expertise:

• Cultural Anthropology: Mexico and Central America
• International Development
• Cross-cultural Communication Studies
• Cultural Ecology
• Political Economy of Gender

Research Grants:

• Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities Global Stewardship Project (funded by the Pew Foundation), 1996

Research Interests

• Gender equity in higher education
• Effects of new government agricultural policies and the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexicali, Mexico

Selected Publications:

• "Irrigation and Social Reproduction in the Mexicali Valley of Northwest Mexico" in "Culture and Environment: A Fragile Coexistence," by R. Jamieson, ed., University of Calgary Press, 1993
• "Short-Term Medical Missions: Enhancing or Eroding Health," Missiology: An International Review 21 (30), 1993.
• "Girls as Goods: Facing Child Prostitution," Together, January-March 1996.