Montero was the first Mexican recipient of the Gates Scholarship for doctoral work in the humanities. Her current book project focuses on the hummingbird as an object of scholarly inquiry across an array of fields, including the history of science, archaeology, anthropology, art history and environmental history. She has taught previously at the Institute of Philosophical Research (UNAM) in Mexico City and currently teaches in the Science and Technology Studies Program at Brown University.
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