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Chad Montrie, Ph.D.

Professor

Pronouns
he/him
College
College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Department
History
Phone
(978) 934-4275
Office
Dugan Hall - 106E
Email
chad_montrie@uml.edu

Expertise

American Social, Labor, and Environmental History.

Research Interests

'Blackface' Minstrelsy, Racial Exclusion, and Labor Environmentalism.

Biosketch

Chad Montrie is the author of five books, including Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota (2022) and The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism (2018). He is currently working on a new book, Modern Minstrels: ‘Blackface’ in 20th Century Minnesota.

Selected Awards and Honors

Fulbright Canada Research Chair, University of Calgary, 2022-2023.

Selected Publications

Recent and Forthcoming Articles include “‘Agenda for the 1970s’: A Genealogy of Organized Labour’s Environmental Activism in Ontario” (Papers in Canadian History and Environment), “‘What is Labour’s Stake?’: Workers and the History of Environmentalism in Alberta” (Labour/Le Travail), and with co-author Federico Paolini, “’Not to US Chained’: Nature and the Radicalism of Sacco and Vanzetti,” Massachusetts Historical Review, Special Issue vol. 1 (2023), 138-64.