Amizade Faculty Instructors
Name: Richard Montgomery, Ph.D.
Faculty Bio: Richard Montgomery is a professor of philosophy at West Virginia University and has taught at WVU for 20 years. Richard and his wife Marilyn live on campus with their two youngest daughters, serving as Resident Faculty Leaders (RFLs) in Fieldcrest Hall. In this position, they plan and facilitate a wide array of activities for Fieldcrest students and generally involve themselves in the life of the hall. Richard often jokingly remarks on his discovery that since becoming a RFL, he would rather hang out with college freshmen than with college faculty.
Richard spent his own undergraduate years at the University of Arizona earning degrees in philosophy and psychology. He later attended the University of Illinois in Chicago where he earned his masters’ and Ph.D. degrees and completed additional graduate coursework in cognitive psychology. Before partnering with Amizade, Richard had had a variety of international experiences. Richard was born on Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland and grew up an “army brat” on Army Posts in ten different states as well as in the town of Giessen, Germany, just north of Frankfurt. He spent time living in Germany as a teenager, and later traveled through France, Poland, Argentina, and Mexico. He first taught “Global-Service Learning in Jamaica” in 2008, and found working and living with members of the Association of Clubs in Petersfield every bit as life-changing an experience as his students.