Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, 2006-07

Room 306 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA

Phone: (574) 631-8533
Fax: (574) 631-6973

E-mail:  Montgomery.31@nd.edu

David W. Montgomery is a doctoral candidate in religion at Boston University and is finishing his dissertation on how the transmission of religious and cultural knowledge influences the practice of religion.

While at the Kroc Institute, he will be completing his dissertation and revising it for publication; analyzing data on religious practice in Kyrgyzstan; and continuing his work on religion and civil society in Central Asia and the Balkans.

Montgomery has conducted anthropological field research in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as an IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Scholar and has been a research fellow at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs and the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy. He is the treasurer and coordinator for the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life and has worked as a legislative assistant for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Montgomery holds graduate degrees in medical ethics from Michigan State University and in international relations from Boston University, and has served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. His publications include a forthcoming chapter in Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present on “Namas, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: the diversity of everyday religious life in Central Asia” and an entry on “Uzbekistan: the language situation” in the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2006). 

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