About Aaron

Aaron Montoya is an anthropologist whose work has taken him from southern Mozambique to southern Colorado to work on educational projects and conduct research on natural and cultural heritage. He currently directs a project to improve undergraduate STEM education at Adams State University funded by a National Science Foundation Hispanic-Serving Institution grant. He implements culturally relevant and place-based education initiatives to expand the sciences and he conducts research to document how the sciences are making progress to be more responsive to diverse publics. Building from his research in Mozambique, his current work asks how education in Southwest North America can better cultivate bicultural development that supports both students’ scientific identifications and their cultural formations rooted in their heritages and social experiences. For his work, Dr. Montoya has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship, University of California Eugene Cota Robles fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, and Ford Foundation fellowship.