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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 Yulín Cruz on "Transformation through Collaboration: Two Communities Collaborate to Learn from Each Other" about the 챬 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’s Early Dance Working Group.


Medieval music ensemble Trobár, 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 Trobár's MuckAbouts, alongside similarly community-focused programs by other American medieval and Renaissance groups.


Monroe, A. (2024) As the Artistic Director of Trobár, Allison co-curated and co-directed performances of “I Sing a New Song” with Liza Malamut, Artistic Director of the venerated Newberry Consort, featuring a slate of some of the country’s best medieval musicians. They performed in both Cleveland and Chicago, to enthusiastic audiences, and .


Monroe, A. (2023) An episode of Les Délices' SalonEra featured a program that I created as Artistic Director for medieval music ensemble Trobár. 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’s award-winning novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which is being produced by A24 Films.