Elizabeth Montaño

Elizabeth Montaño is the inaugural associate professor of teaching in education at the University of California, Davis, School of Education. She is also faculty chair of the educational leadership program and teaches in undergraduate minor programs; she previously served as a lecturer and supervisor of teacher education. She was awarded the 2021 UC Davis P.L.A.C.E./CAMPSSAH Scholar of the Quarter. Her research interests include teacher education and development; sociocultural approaches to language and literacy across content areas; teachers in charter schools; teacher unions; qualitative research; and educational leadership. She is volume coeditor of Research Methods in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education and a reviewer for both the American Educational Research Association and the University Council for Educational Administration. She also holds a California single subject teaching credential. Montaño received her MA in language, literacy, and culture from the University of California, Berkeley, and her EdD in educational leadership for social justice from Loyola Marymount University. 

updated 2024