Summary
Dominique Mikell Montgomery’s agenda as a researcher and an educator is deeply informed by her experiences as a member of and supporter of communities surviving and thriving despite state-sanctioned oppression in the wake of slavery and colonization. All her scholarly work attempts to push forward the social work discipline in terms of its content knowledge on the experiences and resistance of those impacted by oppressive state interventions such as child welfare interventions and its epistemological frameworks regarding what constitutes knowledge and methods for knowledge generation. Dominique's pedagogical philosophy is shaped by abolitionist teaching and liberatory education praxis thus, she attempts to create a learning environment in which students can pursue liberatory aims relevant to the fields of social work, public affairs, and public policy.
Areas of interest
- Child Welfare Policy and Practice
- Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice
- Youth Homelessness Policy and Practice
- Social Work Education
- Structural inequities across state systems
- Participatory Action Research
- Constructivist Grounded Theory
- Abolitionist thought
- Black Studies
Courses taught at the University of Nevada, Reno
- SW 427: Social Work Practice for Organizational and Community Change
- SW 623: Social Work Practice for Organizational and Community Change
- SW 723: Social Work Administration I
- SW 725: Social Work Administration II
Publications
Education
- PhD, University of California Los Angeles- Luskin School of Public Affairs: Department of Social Welfare, 2023
- MSW, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, University of Chicago, 2016
- BA, Philosophy, Stanford University, 2014