Scott L Montgomery is a geologist

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, and part-time faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has written many technical papers, monographs, and several textbooks related to energy. He also has wide interests in the history of science, language studies, science and art, education, translation, and cultural history, all topics he has written about in books, essays, and articles. He has a B.A. in English from Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois; Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.S. in geological sciences from Cornell University.

His teaching reflects his wide diversity of interests, including undergraduate courses on energy, sustainability, and geopolitics, climate change, English as a global language, the role of images in the history of science, great books in travel literature, and more. His publications have appeared in many journals, including Georgia Review, Science, Nature, Science as Culture, Bloomsbury Review, Boston Review, among others.