Teresa Montoya
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Teresa Montoya | |
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| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Permeable: Politics of Extraction and Exposure on the Navajo Nation (2019) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | sociocultural anthropology, legal anthropology, visual anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Website | https://teresamontoya.squarespace.com |
Teresa Montoya is a Diné media maker and social scientist with training in socio-cultural anthropology, critical Indigenous studies, and filmmaking.
Teresa grew up in Western Colorado.[1]
Teresa received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at the University of San Diego in Spanish and Interdisciplinary Humanities with an emphasis in Art History in 2006. She then went on to pursue a Master of Arts (MA) in Anthropology at the University of Denver with an emphasis in Museum Studies, which she completed in 2011. In 2019, she completed her Doctorate (PhD) in Anthropology at New York University. Her dissertation, titled Permeable: Politics of Extraction and Exposure on the Navajo Nation, approaches territorial dispossession and environmental toxicity as they relate to tribal jurisdiction and settler colonialism in contemporary Diné communities in present-day northern Arizona and New Mexico. Teresa is currently a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.[2][3]
Teresa's grandfather, Thomas Lynch Jr., served the US Army in the World War II from May 1943 to December 1945 with the 42 Rainbow Division. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and held as a German Prisoner of war for almost four months. He died at the age of 98 on July 27, 2021, at Window Rock, Arizona.[4]
