Montgomery is a Research Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, and Director of Program Development for CEDAR--Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion. He has conducted long-term anthropological field research in Central Asia and the Balkans on social, religious, and political change, and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Emory University, and Boston University. His books include Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding, Everyday Life in the Balkans, Practicing Islam: Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan, and Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World.

Teaching

• Religion and Culture
• Anthropology of Conflict and Peacebuilding
• Anthropology of Emotion: Knowledge, Morality, and Feeling
• Anthropology of Islam
• Society and Culture of Central Asia