Expertise
American Social, Labor, and Environmental History.
Research Interests
'Blackface' Minstrelsy, Racial Exclusion, and Labor Environmentalism.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Ohio State University
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)
- “’Not to US Chained’: Nature and the Radicalism of Sacco and Vanzetti,” Massachusetts Historical Review, Special Issue vol. 1 (2023), 138-64 (with co-author Federico Paolini).