Alfred P. Montero is an associate professor of political science at Carleton College, specializing in comparative politics.[1] He has also done in-depth studies of Brazil and Spain, and is the faculty director of an off-campus studies program at Carleton that focuses on the European Union as well as European Political Economy at the subnational level.[2] Montero is the adviser of the Posse Foundation scholars program at Carleton.
Montero was a double-major in Political Science and Latin American Studies University of Miami, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1990. He received a PhD in Political Science with Distinction from Columbia University in 1997. He is married to renowned Spanish linguist Mar Valdecantos, whom he met at a bullfight in Seville, Spain, while conducting research for his first book.