Dr. Robert Montgomery has taught in the BW history department since fall 2000. He teaches the first half of the world civilizations sequence along with upper-division courses in Russian and East Asian history. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and received his master’s degree and doctorate at Indiana University Bloomington with a major field in Russian history and minor fields in East Asian history and Mongolian studies. His research focuses on the native Asian peoples of Siberia, particularly the Buryats (Buriats) of the Lake Baikal region.
He has published a book, "Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Nationality and Cultural Policy: The Buryats and their Language" (2005); journal articles such as "Bato-Dalai Ochirov: A Buryat Activist at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" in Sibirica (2022); "Zhamtsarano among the Western Buryats: The ‘Field Notes’ as a Source for Buryat Social History in the Early Twentieth Century" in Russian Review (2019); several additional articles in Russian; and reviews in journals such as Russian Review, Mongolian Studies, Mongol Survey, and The Historian.
