Before joining FGCU in 2010, Cori Montoya was on faculty with Bowling Green State University and Colorado State University (Senior Instructor Art History), where she was awarded Teacher of the Year in 1998.
Ongoing areas of research include the natural world as depicted in art, concepts of the divine feminine, Upper-Paleolithic art and culture in Europe, and petroglyphs/petrographs of U.S. Southwest
Montoya is also an amateur naturalist and avid traveler.