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Iris Montero is a cultural historian specializing in early modern science and medicine, particularly within European and Latin American Indigenous traditions of natural knowledge production. She received her Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge in 2016, where she was a Gates Scholar. Following her doctoral work in the humanities, she joined Brown University as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cogut Institute. Montero is currently revising her book, "Hummingbird Knows: Natural History," which explores the genre of early modern natural history, indigenous knowledge, and epistemic agency, particularly among Nahua intellectuals. Her research investigates the knowledge production in the Americas and Europe and the intentionality behind the use of early modern literary genres for memory preservation. She has been awarded several honors for her work, including the 2024 Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award and an honorable mention for her dissertation from the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. Montero teaches in the Hispanic Studies Department at Brown University and plays a key role in coordinating Nahuatl language courses.
Brown University • Providence, RI
Montero teaches courses in the Department of Hispanic Studies and coordinates Nahuatl language courses.
Department: Department of Economics