Elizabeth Montaño

Elizabeth Montaño is an associate professor of teaching in education at the University of California, Davis and is the first faculty member in the history of the UC Davis School of Education to hold this new teaching professorship title. She is also faculty chair of the educational leadership (CANDEL) program while teaching in undergraduate minor programs; previously serving as a lecturer and supervisor of Teacher Education. She was recently awarded the 2021 UC Davis P.L.A.C.E./CAMPSSAH Scholar of the Quarter. Her research interests include: teacher education and developmemt, sociocultural approaches to language and literacy across the content areas; teachers in charter schools; teacher unions; qualitative research; and educational leadership. She is volume co-editor of Research Methods in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education and a reviewer for both the American Educational Research Association (AERA and the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). Dr. Montaño received an EdD in educational leadership for social justice from Loyola Marymount University along with an MA in language, literacy, and culture and a BA in political science and Chicana and Chicano studies jointly from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a California single subject teaching credential in English with CLAD certification from UC Berkeley.

updated 2024