Dena K Montague
Environmental Justice Lecturer
Earth Systems Program
Bio
Dena Montague is an Environmental Justice Lecturer at Stanford University. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of ÉnergieRich, an early-stage start-up establishing community based local manufacturing of solar energy systems in Ghana. ÉnergieRich develops collaborative research partnerships between Ghanaian engineers and engineers in the African Diaspora to implement innovative energy solutions that center community voices. Her research focuses on energy justice through decentralized production; impacts of Global North clean energy transition on climate/environmental justice in the Global South. Prior to her position at Stanford, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Duke University and Lecturer at The Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Earth Systems Program
Professional Education
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PhD, UCLA, Political Science
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BA, Brown University, American Studies
2025-26 Courses
- Climates of Inequality
EARTHSYS 120A, EARTHSYS 220A (Spr) - Earth Systems Capstone Project
EARTHSYS 210P (Win, Spr) - Environmental Justice in California
EARTHSYS 120, EARTHSYS 220 (Win) - Environmental Wayfinding: Cultural, Artistic, and Spiritual Approaches to Life on a Changing Planet
EARTHSYS 108, EARTHSYS 208, NATIVEAM 108, RELIGST 108X (Spr) - Master's Seminar
EARTHSYS 290 (Aut, Win) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Directed Individual Study in Earth Systems
EARTHSYS 297 (Win, Spr)
- Directed Individual Study in Earth Systems
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Prior Year Courses
2024-25 Courses
- Co-developing Appropriate Energy Technology in Ghana
AFRICAAM 118, EARTHSYS 118G, EARTHSYS 218G (Spr) - Earth Systems Capstone Project
EARTHSYS 210P (Win, Spr) - Environmental Justice in California
EARTHSYS 120, EARTHSYS 220 (Win) - Environmental, Climate and Energy Justice in Africa
AFRICAAM 121, EARTHSYS 121, EARTHSYS 221 (Spr) - Introduction to Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Gender and Place
EARTHSYS 194, ENVRES 223 (Aut) - Master's Seminar
EARTHSYS 290 (Aut, Win) - Participatory Public Memory as an Organizing Strategy
EARTHSYS 120A, EARTHSYS 220A (Spr)
2023-24 Courses
- Earth Systems Capstone Project
EARTHSYS 210P (Spr) - Environmental Justice in California
EARTHSYS 120, EARTHSYS 220 (Win) - Environmental Justice: Reflection
EARTHSYS 134 (Spr)
- Co-developing Appropriate Energy Technology in Ghana
All Publications
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Systemic environmental racism exposed
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
2022; 5 (6): 462-463
View details for DOI 10.1038/s41893-022-00875-y
View details for Web of Science ID 000779238700001
- Health and Environmental Justice Struggles in America's Prisons During a Global Pandemic Capitalism Nature Socialism 2022
- Beyond Ethnic Relations: Racial Politics and the Origins of the Welfare State in Republican France Sociological Focus 2018: 1-13
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Communitarianism, discourse and political opportunity in Republican France
FRENCH CULTURAL STUDIES
2013; 24 (2): 219-230
View details for DOI 10.1177/0957155813477806
View details for Web of Science ID 000318354600007
- Stolen Goods Coltan and Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo SAIS Review 2002: 103-118
- The Business of War and the Prospects for Peace in Sierra Leone Brown Journal of World Affairs 2002