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Was elected to the South Hadley School Committee in the local election on April 13, 2021.


Was invited to speak at the UMass Amherst College of Education with Carmen Yul铆n Cruz on "Transformation through Collaboration: Two Communities Collaborate to Learn from Each Other" about the 69精品视频 College STEM program in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 31, 2021. 


Presented research on facilitating dialogues on race in college courses at the POD Network Conference, November 13-17, 2019. Pittsburgh, PA.


Forced by the pandemic to conduct his geological fieldwork closer to campus, Mark McMenamin discovered a new Jurassic dinosaur (Amherst) and a new pterosaur (South Hadley).


Monahin, Nona & Pash, Meg. (2024, February 22). The Interdependence of Music and Dance in 16th-century Renaissance Dance Reconstruction. Early Dance Symposium 2024 - virtual conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Dance Studies Association鈥檚 Early Dance Working Group.


Medieval music ensemble Trob谩r, co-directed by Allison Monroe and Elena Mullins Bailey, received accolades from Early Music America for its community participation events. A recent article in EMAg highlighted Trob谩r's MuckAbouts, alongside similarly community-focused programs by other American medieval and Renaissance groups.


Monroe, A. (2024) As the Artistic Director of Trob谩r, Allison co-curated and co-directed performances of 鈥淚 Sing a New Song鈥 with Liza Malamut, Artistic Director of the venerated Newberry Consort, featuring a slate of some of the country鈥檚 best medieval musicians. They performed in both Cleveland and Chicago, to enthusiastic audiences, and .


Monroe, A. (2023) An episode of Les D茅lices' SalonEra featured a program that I created as Artistic Director for medieval music ensemble Trob谩r. Interviews with myself and another performer are interspersed with recordings of a May 2023 performance.


Elliot Montague has been invited to be an artist-in-residence at The Studios at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts during the fall of 2025, where he will continue work on his current film project, "The Birthing Series". 


Elliot Montague was a script consultant for the screenplay adaptation of Ocean Vuong鈥檚 award-winning novel, On Earth We鈥檙e Briefly Gorgeous, which is being produced by A24 Films.