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.
Theoretical, academic, and research interests
- Child Welfare Policy and Practice
- Structural inequities across state systems
- Participatory Action Research
- Constructivist Ground Theory
- Abolitionist thought
- Black Studies
Education
- PhD, University of California Los Angeles- Luskin School of Public Affairs: Department of Social Welfare, 2023
Publications
Brock-Petroshius, K., Mikell, D., Washington Sr, D. M., & James, K. (2022). From social justice to abolition: living up to social work's grand challenge of eliminating racism. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 1-15.
Mikell Montgomery, D. (2022). 'They Don't Understand Us and are Afraid of Us': Black Social Workers' Perspectives on the Role of Anti-Blackness within Foster Care Service. Child Welfare, 100(1), 141-164.
Greeson, J., Treglia, D., Morones, S., Hopkins, M., & Mikell, D. (2019). . Children and Youth Services Review, 108, 104586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104586
Education
AM, University of Chicago-Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, 2018
BA, Stanford University, 2014