Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Ed.D

Associate Professor

Higher Education and Student Affairs

Milagros Castillo-Montoya is a first-generation scholar. She is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs in the Educational Leadership Department at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. She also serves as a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Office for Diversity and Inclusion and as a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), El Instituto, and the Sustainable Global Cities Initiative. Dr. Castillo-Montoya studies equity-based teaching and learning in racially and ethnically diverse college classrooms. Dr. Castillo-Montoya has published in the Journal of Higher Education, Review of Educational Research, Review of Higher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, Harvard Educational Review, among other outlets. Dr. Castillo-Montoya has 20 years of professional experience in various areas of higher education including faculty work, higher education policy, academic affairs, and student affairs.