María Montenegro is a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University, specializing in Spanish for the health professions. Her teaching and research focus on the intersections of language, culture, and healthcare, with particular attention to improving access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services for Spanish-speaking communities. She has extensive experience in curriculum development, community-engaged learning, and interdisciplinary projects that connect language education with public health. At Rutgers, she teaches courses designed to prepare students in health-related fields to engage with Spanish-speaking patients and communities through both linguistic and cultural competence.
Refereed Journal Articles
2025 - Montenegro, Maier, Jozkowski, Crawford, Turner, and Lo. “Distinct and separate issues”: Examining US adults’ attitudes toward abortion during COVID-19. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, online.
2023 - Montenegro, Marcantonio, and Wiseblatt. Prevalence and variation of sexual violence victimization among us-based Latino adults and adolescents: a systematic literature review. Psychology of Violence, online.
2023 - Valdez, Soto-Vásquez, Montenegro. Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media: Online insights from an English/Spanish natural language processing (NLP) analysis of vaccine-related tweets. Social Science & Medicine, 339(1), 1-11.
2023 - Bueno, Montenegro, Jozkowski, Crawford, Turner, and Lo. Contexts of Socialization and Abortion Attitudes: A close look at Latinx population in the us by migrant generation. Ethnicity and Health. Online, 1-19.
2022 - Montenegro, Valdez, Crawford, Turner, Jozkowski, and Lo. Using a decentering framework to create English/Spanish surveys about abortion: Insights into comparative survey research (CSR) for new survey development. The Social Science Journal. Online, 1-15.
2022 - Valdez, Jozkowski, Montenegro, Jackson, Crawford, Turner, and Lo. Identifying accurate pro-choice and pro-life identity labels in Spanish: Social media insights and implications for comparative survey research. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 54(1), 166-176.
2022 - Montenegro, Valdez, Solon, Jozkowski, Crawford, Turner, and Lo. Abortion Legality and Morality: Examining the Influence of Religiosity on Abortion Attitudes Among a Sample of US Latinxs. Journal of Religion and Society. 24(1), 1-22.
2021 - Montenegro, Maier, Jozkowski, Crawford, Turner, and Lo. A preliminary qualitative study examining the influence of religion on us-based Latinx abortion attitudes. Qualpor Newsletter, 5-7.
2021 - Valdez, Montenegro, Crawford, Turner, Jozkowski, and Lo. Translation frameworks as a component of methodological decision making in health science: A discussion and taxonomy of popular translation frameworks and their uses. Social Science and Medicine. 278(1), 1-7.
2021 - Maier, Jozkowski, Montenegro, Crawford, Turner, and Lo. Examining auxiliary verbs in a salient belief elicitation. Health Behavior and Policy Review. 8(4), 347-393.