Dr. Diana Montague's specialties are journalism and popular culture. She advised the student newspaper, The Pulse, for her first 16 years at UF, and was the director of the University’s First-Year Experience from 2000-2007.   She is currently the Faculty Liaison for Service Learning and works closely with the The University of Findlay's Campus Compact Center for Service and Learning.

Dr. Montague is an active advisory board member for the Findlay Salvation Army Corps. and for The University of Findlay's Curtain Raisers Society for the Performing Arts.

Before coming to Findlay, Dr. Montague worked as an assistant news editor and columnist at the Winona Daily News in Winona, Minn. Career honors include a first-place award for front-page design from the Minnesota Associated Press, and the top two teaching awards at UF: the Founders’ Academic Excellence Award for Faculty (1999) and the David L. Allen Award for Teaching Excellence (2003).

• 2005 graduate of Hancock Leadership
• Trained in Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) by Investigative Reporters & Editors, Inc.
• Co-founder of the UF Orientation Service Initiative in 2002, now an annual event that sends the entire freshman class into the community to do service projects on the Saturday before fall classes begin.
• Tutor trainer for Salvation Army’s “Turning the Page” reading program

Presentations at national conferences:

• “Service From the Start: Incorporating Service into the First-Year Experience”
• “Real Cops vs. TV Cops: Challenging the Perceptions of College Journalism Students”
• “New Mexico’s Changing Identity Mourned in Michael McGarrity’s Detective Fiction”
• “Integrating Psychology and Popular Culture to Teach Values Clarification”