Education
Ph.D., Russian History, May 1995
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Minor Fields: East Asian History and Mongolian Studies
M.A., Russian History, May 1988
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
B.A., College Scholars Honors Program (History and Russian Language), March 1986
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Chinese-Language Program, Summer 1984 and 1985
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Russian-Language Program, Summer 1983
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Teaching Experience
Department of History, Baldwin-Wallace College
Associate Professor of History (Russian, East Asian and World), 2006-present
Assistant Professor of History (Russian, East Asian and World), 2000-2006
Department of History, Hanover College
Visiting Assistant Professor of History (East Asian and World), 1999-2000
School of Continuing Studies, Indiana University
Instructor, "Modern East Asian Civilization" Summer 1999
McNair Scholars Undergraduate Research Program, Indiana University
Faculty Mentor (Russian History) Summer 1998
Foster International Residential Education Program, Indiana University
Instructor, "Siberia: Russia's Wild East" Spring 1998
Department of History, Indiana University
Course Assistant, Russian History II Spring 1991
Course Assistant, Jewish History and Civilization II Fall 1990
Associate Instructor, U.S. History 1987-1988
Other University Employment
Indiana University Main Library
Monographic Processing Services, Slavic Acquisitions, 1994-1999
Department of Preservation and Conservation, 1989-1991, 1992-1994
Publications
Monograph
Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Cultural and Nationality Poilcy: The Buryats and their Language (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Buriat Political and Social Activism in the 1905 Revolution” in Sibirica, Vol. 10. No. 3 (Winter 2011)
"K voprosu o stepnoi dume v gody pervoi russkoi revoliutsii" in Buriatskie natsional’nye demokraty i obshchestvenno-politicheskaia mysl' mongol'skikh narodov v XX v.: sbornik nauchnykh trudov [The Buryat National Democrats and the Socio-political Thought of the Mongol Peoples in the Twentieth Century] ed. B.V. Bazarov, L.V. Kuras et al. Ulan-Ude: Izdatel'sko-poligraficheskii kompleks FGOU VPO VSGAKI, 2008.
"Ob odnom istochnike o dorevoliutsionnoi obshchestvennoi i politicheskoi deiatel'nosti M. N. Bogdanova" [A Source for the Study of the Prerevolutionary Social and Political Activity of M. N. Bogdanov] in Vestnik Buriatskogo Universiteta (2008) No. 7
"Iazykovaia politika v Buriatii v 20-e gody" [Language Policy in Buriatia in the 1920s] pp. 43-51 in Istoricheskoe, kul'turnoe i prirodnoe nasledie: sostoianie, problemy, transliatsiia [Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage: Status, Problems, and Transmission] vyp. 2. ed. L.V. Kuras. Ulan-Ude: Buriatskii nauchnyi tsentr, Sibirskoe otdelenie Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk; Vostochno-Sibirskaia gosudarstvennaia Akademiia kul'tury i iskusstv, 1997
"Buddhist Monastic Education in Prerevolutionary Buriatia" East/West Education (formerly Slavic and European Education Review) vol. 17, no. 1-2 (1996)
(with Yeshen-Khorlo Dugarova-Montgomery) "The Buryat Alphabet of Agvan Dorzhiev" in Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan ed. Stephen Kotkin and Bruce Elleman. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999
Contributions to Reference Works
“Railways in Russia” in World History Encyclopedia, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914 ed. Alfred J. Andrea and Carolyn. New York: ABC-CLIO, 2011
“Buriats” in The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History. Vol. 5, ed. Bruce F. Adams. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 2004
“Bazar Baradin” in The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History. Vol. 3, ed. Edward J. Lazzerini. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 2000
“Buriats,” "Chuchki," "Evenki," "Evens," "Koriaks," "Nanai," "Nivikhs," and "Tuvans" in Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Vol 4: Europe ed. Allison McNeill. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997
(With E. B. Batarova) "Dandaron, Bidiia" in The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet & Eurasian History. Vol. 7, ed. Bruce F. Adams. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 2006
Book Reviews
James Palmer, The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia, in The Historian, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall 2011)
Buriatskii mir: kontseptsii i strategii razvitiia iazyka i kul’tury [The Buryat World: Conceptions and Strategies of the Growth of Language and Culture] ed. Mariia Sonomovna Vasil’eva, Valentina Dugarovna Pataeva, and D. Tsedenzhav, in Northern Notes: Newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association No. 32 (Spring/Summer 2010)
Leonid Vladimirovich Kuras, Igor' Vladimirovich Naumov, Tamara Aleksandrovna Nemchinova, and Pavel Aleksandrovich Novikov, Oktiabr'skaia revoliutsiia i Grazhdanskaia voina v zapadnom Zabaikal'e: otechestvennaia istoriografiia i istochniki lichnogo proiskhozhdeniia [The October Revolution and Civil War in Western Transbaikalia: National Historiography and Sources of Personal Origin] in Russian Review Vol. 69, No. 2 (April 2010)
Svetlana Vladimirovna Vasil'eva, Vlast' i staroobriadtsy Zabaikal'ia [Power and the Old Believers of Transbaikalia] in Sibirica Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2010)
Igor' Valentinovich Rassadin, Khoziaistvo, byt i kul'tura tofalarov [The Economy, Way of Life, and Culture of the Tofalar] in Sibirica Vol. 8, No. 3 (Winter 2009)
Konstantin N. Maksimov, Kalmykia in Russia's Past and Present National Policies and Administrative System in Russian Review No. 69 (July 2009)
B. V. Bazarov, Zhdanovskii diskurs v natsional'nykh regionakh Rossii poslevoennykh let [The Zhdanov Discourse in the National Regions of Russia in the Postwar Years] in Central Asian Survey Vol. 27 (2008), Nos. 3-4
Balzan Zhimbiev, History of the Urbanisation of a Siberian City: Ulan Ude in Central Eurasian Studies Review, vol. 2 (2003) no. 2
Donald Ostrowski, Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier in Canadian-American Slavic Studies, vol. 37 (2003)
Victor L. Mote, Siberia: Worlds Apart in Canadian-American Slavic Studies vol. 34 (2000)
Dennis A. and Alice L. Bartels, When the North was Red: Aboriginal Education in Soviet Siberia in East/West Education (formerly Slavic and European Education Review) vol. 18 (1998) no. 1
Istoriia Buriatii v voprosakh i otvetakh [The History of Buriatia in Questions and Answers], ed. T. M. Mikhailov et al. in Mongolian Studies vol. 20 (1997)
Jasper Becker, The Lost Country: Mongolia Revealed in Mongolian Studies vol. 20 (1997)
John Snelling, Buddhism in Russia: The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev, Lhasa's Ambassador to the Tsar in Mongolian Studies vol. 18 (1995)
James Forsyth, A History of the Peoples of Siberia in Mongolian Studies vol. 17 (1994)
Fred W. Bergholz, The Partition of the Steppes in Mongolian Studies vol. 17 (1994)
Conference Papers Presented
"Buryats in the 1905 Revolution and its Aftermath" presented at the 41st National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, Nov. 13, 2009
"Ob odnom istochnike o dorevoliutsionnoi obshchestvenno-politicheskoi deiatel'nosti M. N. Bogdanova" [A Source for the Study of the Prerevolutionary Socio-Political Activity of M. N. Bogdanov] presented at the "International Symposium Dedicated to the One Hundred Thirtieth Anniversary from the Birth of Mikhail Nikolaevich Bogdanov," at Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, May 16, 2008
"Vopros vosstanovleniia stepnoi dumy vo vremia pervoi russkoi revoliutsii" [The Question of the Re-establishment of the Steppe Duma during the First Russian Revolution] presented at the "International Conference on the Buryat National Democrats and the Socio-Political Thought of the Mongol Peoples in the Twentieth Century," at the Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, May 13, 2008
"The Buriat National Committee and Buriat Language Issues between the February and October Revolutions" presented at the Sixth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, March 27, 1999
"The 1926 Conference on the National Culture and the Question of the Buriat Alphabet" presented at the Fourth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, February 8, 1997
"Buriat Buddhist Education under the Tsarist Regime" presented at the 27th National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., October 26-29, 1995
"Buriat-Language Policy under Tsars and Soviets" presented at the Workshop on Greater Mongolia in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University, February 2-4, 1995
Other Conference Participation
Invited discussant on the panel "The State and Siberia: Three Centuries of Defining People and Places" at the 40th Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (November, 2008, Philadelphia)
Select Professional Service
Participant in review of a World history textbook manuscript for Bedford-St. Martins, Fall 2011
Participant in review of a World history educational software program for Cengage Learning, Fall 2011
Participant in review of a World history textbook manuscript for Cengage Learning, Spring 2011
Participant in Russian-English translation project on the historical biography of Russian Alaska, Spring 2010
Peer reviewer, Sibirica, Fall 2009, Fall 2005
Peer reviewer, Nationalities Papers, Spring 2006
Reader for Advanced Placement World History examination, Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 2011, June 2010
Research in Progress
Buryat political and social activism at the turn of the twentieth century
Future Research
The Buryat intelligentsia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Stalinism in Buryatia; Russian and Soviet nationality policy in Buryatia; the Buryats and the Great Purges; history of the Buryat people
Select College Service
Baldwin Wallace College
Academic Services Advisory Committee, Fall 2008-Fall 2011 (Committee absorbed into another body)
Acting Chair, Department of History, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Fall 2007
Saturday Visitation Day (History representative), Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
Saturday of Service participant, Fall 2010, Spring 2010
Midnight Madness Events, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
Faculty Advisor (with Dr. Steven Siry) of Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society in History, Spring 2006-Fall 2007, Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Graduation Appeals Committee, Spring 2005, Spring 2003 (Committee absorbed into new governance structure)
Stenographer, Department of History, Fall 2003-Spring 2007, Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Personnel Committee, Spring 2002-Fall 2007
Library Council, Spring 2001-Fall 2004 (Council absorbed into new governance structure)
Bibliographer, Department of History, Spring 2001-Fall 2007, Fall 2008-present
Freshman assessment examination proctor and grader, Department of History, 2001-Fall 2007, Fall 2008-present
Comprehensive examination proctor and grader, Department of History, Fall 2000-Fall 2007, Fall 2008-present
Guest lecturer:
Business: International Marketing (Fall 2011)
Geology: The Dynamic Earth (Spring 2004)
Religion: Religions of Japan and China (Fall 2003)
Political Science: America in the World (Spring 2001)
Political Science: Terrorism: Roots and Responses (Spring 2001)
Geology: The Dynamic Earth (Spring 2001
Russian-language Consultant, Department of Theatre, Fall 200
Hanover College
Phi Beta Kappa Task Force, 1999-2000
Awards and Honors
Selected for participation in the Eurasian Regional Languages Program of the American Councils for International Education for Buryat-language study in Ulan-Ude, Summer 2011
Chosen by Dayton C. Miller Honor Society inductee as "having had the greatest influence on her undergraduate years at Baldwin-Wallace College" (notified Oct. 25, 2011)
Chosen by student honoree of the Student-Athlete/Faculty Academic Luncheon as “having made a difference” in the student’s academic career (notified Feb. 8, 2011)
Chosen for recognition by an Honors student at the Senior Honors banquet (notified May 4, 2010)
Recognized by student at Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day, February 6, 2010
Post-Secondary Curriculum Development Program Grant, University of Michigan Center for Russian and East European Studies, Summer 2009 http://www.ii.umich.edu/UMICH/crees/Home/Resources/Teacher%20Outreach/Post-Secondary%20Curriculum%20Development%20Program/Montgomery_2009.pdf
Chosen by Honors student as "having had the greatest influence on his undergraduate years at Baldwin-Wallace College" (notified April 21, 2009)
Chosen by Dayton C. Miller Honor Society inductee as "having had the greatest influence on his undergraduate years at Baldwin-Wallace College" (notified April 15, 2009)
Recognized at Professor Appreciation Day, Nov. 1, 2008
Summer grant, summer 2008
Gigax Faculty Grant, Summer 2008 (awarded 2007 for use in 2008)
Gigax Faculty Grant, Summer 2003
Gund Student Research Grant, Summer 2002 ("Buryat Nationality Policy, 19th-Early 20th c."; student researcher: Mr. Evan Wilhelm)
International Research and Exchanges Board, Long-Term Research Exchange, Ulan-Ude, 1991-92
Daniel Armstrong Graduate Essay Award, 1988
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS):
1988-89 (Mongolian)
Summer 1988 (Georgian)
1986-87 and Summer 1987 (Russian)
Phi Beta Kappa, 1984
Languages Studied
Russian, Buryat, Classical Mongolian, Modern (Khalkha) Mongolian, French, German, Classical Chinese, Modern Chinese, Georgian
Dissertation Title
"Buriat Language Policy, 19thc-1928: A Case Study in Tsarist and Soviet Nationality Practices" Indiana University, November 28, 1994 (Director: Dr. Alexander Rabinowitch)
Membership in Professional Associations
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Mongolia Society
Phi Alpha Theta International Honor Society in History
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