Yale University, PhD 1993
Maria E. Montoya
Global Network Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of History; Former Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
U.S. History, History of the American West, Environmental History, Labor History
Maria E. Montoya is a Global Network Associate Professor of History at New York University and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU Shanghai. She earned her BA, MA and PhD degrees at Yale University. She is the author of numerous articles on the History of the American West, Environmental, Labor and Latina/o history and of the book, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900. She is the lead author on the U.S. History textbook, Global Americans: A Social and Global History of the United States.
Her new book, Making the Working Man’s Paradise: Progressive Management of Workers and their Families in Colorado’s Coal Fields, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. It focuses on John D. Rockefeller and Josephine Roche, and their roles in defining the spheres of work and home life during the early 20th century.
She is also working on another book project about the scarcity of water in the American Southwest, and the Rio Grande in particular. She is currently the PI for Zaanheh: A Natural History of Shanghai which is an interdisciplinary research team based at NYU Shanghai, and which was inspired by Eric Sanderson’s Mannahatta Project.
Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
Books
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New York: Cengage Publishers, 2017.
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Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840 to 1920University of California Press, 2002; paperback edition by University of Kansas Press, Spring 2005.
Publications
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Western Historical QuarterlyVolume 53, Issue 1, Spring 2022, Pages 1–23
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Company Towns: Turning Workers into Consumers and Taking Care of Families in the American West, 1900-1950Article out for review
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The Problem of Enclosing Western Public Lands: Working Locally to Preserve the American CommonsUtah Historical QuarterlyVol. 88, no. Spring 2020
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Field Notes: Teaching Western History in ChinaWestern Historical QuarterlyAutumn, 2015
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The Not So Free Labor in the American WestEmpire and Liberty: The Civil War and the American West, ed., Virginia ScharffUniversity of California Press, 2015
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The Legacy of LudlowFawn Amber Montoya, ed., Making an American Workforce: The Rockefellers and the Legacy of LudlowBoulder: University of Colorado Press, 2014
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Home on Earth: Women and Land in the Rio ArribaHome Lands: How Women Made the West,” Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, edsUniversity of California Press, 2010. (Also consulted on the exhibit that went along with this book.)
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Creating an American Home: Work, Gender and Space in Rockefeller’s Coal TownsMapping Memories: Latina Lives, eds. Vicki Ruiz and John ChavezUrbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008
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The Making of ModernNew Mexico: A Portrait of Dennis ChavezNew Mexico Lives, ed., Richard EtulainUniversity of New Mexico Press, 2002
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The Roots of Ethnic and Economic Division in Northern New Mexico: The Case Study of the Civilian Conservation CorpWestern Historical Quarterly, v. XXVII, 1995
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And Now About the Women…Western Historical QuarterlyAutumn 2007
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Conditions of Work for Women Historians in the Twenty-First CenturyJournal of Women’s History, v. 18, #1, 154-57
"Viewing the American West as a Chicana in China" - Western History Association (WHA) 2021 Presidential Address
"Essential Questions in History" - How Did Manifest Destiny Shape the American West?
Maria Montoya on Manifest Destiny from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Contact Information
Maria E. Montoya
Global Network Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of History; Former Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai maria.montoya@nyu.edu King Juan Carlos Center, Room 520Phone: (212) 998-8648
Office Hours: By Appointment Only