Washington Post columnist Jessica Mathews will visit the College as a Montgomery Fellow later this term, and Mexican professor Jorge Castaneda will be the Montgomery Fellow Spring term.
Mathews, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will be a on campus between Feb. 20 and Feb. 24.
Mathews will give a public address titled "Old States and New Actors: The Shape of a New World Politics."
She is the former deputy to the undersecretary of state for global Affairs.
From 1982 to 1993, Matthews served as the vice president of the World Resources Institute.
The World Resources Institute, founded in 1982, is a policy research center that focuses on issues of national and international significance concerning management of natural resources and the environment.
Castaneda will be a Montgomery Fellow throughout the spring term.
A political science professor of in the graduate school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 1982,
In the spring, Castaneda will teach a course called "The Politics of Transition and Economic Change in Mexico."
From 1980 to 1982, he served as a political advisor to the Mexican government on Central American and Caribbean affairs.
Montgomery Fellows interact with students in the classroom and reside in the Montgomery House, located on Rope Ferry Road by Dick's House.
Barbara Gerstner, executive director of the Montgomery Endowment, said the endowment invites several prominent individuals from various disciplines to come and share their academic experiences in lectures or classes.
The Montgomery Endowment was created "to provided for the advancement of the academic realm of the College," according to a College pamphlet.
The endowment has brought such distinguished writers and orators as Chinua Achebe, Toni Morrison and David McCullough.
Fellows visit the College for periods of three days to three terms, depending on how long the person can stay, the endowment's resources and whether they are able to teach courses.
The Montgomery Endowment was established in 1977 by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Montgomery '25.
