Education
Georgina Montgomery is an associate professor in Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. Her research focuses on the history of field science, particularly the development of field methods and sites within primatology and animal behavior studies. Montgomery teaches a range of courses on the history of field science, gender and science, and the history of primatology and animal behavior studies. Montgomery’s publications include a book “Primates in the Real World: Escaping Primate Folklore, Creating Primate Science,” articles for the Journal for the History of Biology and Endeavour, book chapters for Teaching the Animal and a chapter on Darwin and Gender for Cambridge University Press’ encyclopedia on Darwin. She earned her doctorate from the University of Minnesota.