Maria Montoya's Teaching and Research InterestsResearch Interests
I am currently working on a book about the labor troubles that plagued the American Western coal fields during the 1920s and 1930s. Dreams of Wealth and Promises of Reform: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s and Josephine Roche’s Battle Over the Colorado Coal Fields examines these battles through the ideologies and labor practices of these two industrialists. This book is a further exploration of the themes that engage me in terms of my research more broadly: property, gender, and how people make their homes on the American Landscape.
Teaching Interests
I am most interested in teaching students how to think about the making and creation of history. In all of my courses, Frontiers in America, U.S. History, Labor History, or Latina/o History, I hope that students will learn not only the “facts” about our historical past but will think about who tells those facts and how stories are created about the American past. I am currently working on a new U.S. history textbook, Worlds of Difference: A Social And Global History of the United States that engages students to think about their family and community history with in the context of U.S. and global history.
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