Comprehensive Professional Vitae
Chad Montrie
Department: History September 14, 2009
College: Arts & Sciences
Rank: Associate Professor
Education and Academic Qualifications
Education
2001Ph.D.History, OhioStateUniversity
Dissertation: “To Save the Land and People: A History of
Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia”
1997M.A.History, OhioStateUniversity
Thesis: ““Rethinking Municipal Housekeeping: Hull-House
Women and Sanitation Reform in Chicago, 1889-1913”
1994B.A.History, University of Louisville
summa cum laude
Honor’s Thesis: “Paths to Reform: Confronting the Garbage
Crisis in American Cities, 1865-1915"
Academic Experience[*]
2007-University of MassachusettsLowell, History Department,
PresentAssociate Professor
2002-University of MassachusettsLowell, History Department,
2007Assistant Professor
2001-2002RhodesCollege, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor
1998-2001OhioStateUniversity, Department of History, Instructor
2000JohnCarrollUniversity, Department of History, Visiting Faculty
(Autumn)
1999OtterbeinCollege, Department of History, Adjunct Instructor
(Autumn)
1995-1998Ohio State University, Department of History, Teaching Assistant
Research
Academic Publications
Books
A People’s History of Environmentalism in the United States(under
contract, Continuum Press).
Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal
Mining in Appalachia (Chapel Hill: University of North
CarolinaPress, 2003).
Articles
“Unions, the Environment, and Social Justice: Mining Struggles in
Colombia and Appalachia,” with Aviva Chomsky, in The Struggle forAppalachia: Identity, Place, and Movement-Building, eds., Steve Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith (forthcoming).
“We Mean to Stop Them, One Way or Another: Coal, Power, and the
Fight Against Strip Mining in Appalachia,” Journal for a
Sustainable Future (forthcoming).
“Class,” in A Companion to American Environmental History, ed.,
Douglas Sackman (Malden: Blackwell, forthcoming).
“It Ought to Be Outlawed: The Movement to Ban Strip Mining in
Appalachia, 1954-1977,” in Plundering Appalachia:
The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, eds. Tim
Butler and George Wuerthner (Earthware Editions, 2009).
“Continuity in the Midst of Change: Work and Environment for West
Virginia Mountaineers,” West Virginia History1 (Spring 2007), 1-22.
With Vanessa Gray, Whitley Kaufman, and Daniel Egan, “Education for
Sustainable Development: The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences,” in Universities, Education, and Sustainable Development (Amityville, New York: Baywood Press, 2006), and The Declaration (University Leaders for a Sustainable Future) 7 (Summer 2004).
““’Men Alone Cannot Settle a Country’: Domesticating Nature in the
Kansas-Nebraska Grassland,” Great Plains Quarterly 25 (Fall 2005), 245-258.
“‘To Have, Hold, Develop, and Defend’: Natural Rights and the
Movement to Abolish Strip Mining in Eastern Kentucky,” Journal of Appalachian Studies 11 (Spring/Fall 2005), 64-82.
“From Dairy Farms to Housing Tracts: Environment and Race in the
Making of a Memphis Suburb,” Journal of Urban History 31 (January 2005), 219-40.
“‘I Think Less of the Factory Than of My Native Dell’: Labor, Nature,
and the Lowell ‘Mill Girls’,” Environmental History 9 (April 2004), 275-95.
“Agriculture, Christian Stewardship, and Aesthetics: Ohio Farmers’
Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in the 1940s,” Ohio History 111 (Winter-Spring 2002), 44-63.
“Expedient Environmentalism: Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in
Appalachia and the United Mine Workers of America, 1945-1977," Environmental History 5 (January 2000), 75-98 (won Aldo Leopold Award from the American Society for Environmental History, for best article in Environmental History in 2000).
“A Path to Reform: Confronting the Garbage Crisis in Louisville, 1865-
1873,” The Filson Club Historical Quarterly 70 (January 1996),
27-38.
Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Rob Kirkpatrick, 1969: The Year Everything Changed in Choice
(forthcoming)
Thomas Kiffmeyer, Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers
and the War on Povertyin North Carolina Historical Review
(forthcoming)
“Labor Movements” and “Coal,” Encyclopedia of American
Environmental History (Facts on File, forthcoming)
Thomas Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War in
American Historical Review (June 2009)
William David Estrada, The Los AngelesPlaza: Sacred and Contested
Space in Choice (March 2009)
Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish, Viva La Raza: A History of Chicano
Identity & Resistance in Choice (March 2009)
Shirley Stewart Burns.Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of
Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West
Virginia Communities, 1970-2004 in West Virginia History
(Fall 2008)
Neil Maher, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the
Roots of the American Environmental Movement in Journal of
American History 95 (June 2008)
“Serendipity and Strip Mining,” Appalachian Journal34
(Spring/Summer 2007), 457-58
John Nolt, A Land Imperiled: The Declining Health of the Southern
Appalachian Bioregion in Journal of Appalachian Studies
(Fall 2006)
James Pickering, America’s Switzerland: EstesPark and RockyMountain
National Park, the Growth Years in Choice (June 2006)
T.V. Reed, The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights
Movement to the Streets of Seattle in Choice (May 2006)
“Coal Mining” and “Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People,”
Encyclopedia of Appalachia (University of Tennessee
Press, 2006)
Mikko Saikku, This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the
Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain in Choice (January 2006)
William G. Robbins, Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-
2000 in Choice (December 2005)
Craig Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from
Nature in Choice (November 2005)
Richard Straw and H. Tyler Blethen, eds.,HighMountains Rising:
Appalachia in Time and Place inNorth Carolina Historical Review LXXXII (January 2005)
Philip Yale Nicholson, Labor’s Story in the United States in Labor History
45 (November 2004)
Steven High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt,
1969-1984 in Left History 9 (Spring/Summer 2004)
Richard Brisbin, Jr., A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance
during the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990 in Journal of Southern History 7 (May 2004)
Ronald Mendel, “A Broad and Ennobling Spirit”: Workers and Their
Unionsin late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898 in Choice (April 2004)
Colin Davis, Jr., Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers
in Choice (April 2004)
Timothy Silver, Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountainsin Journal of
American History 91 (March 2004)
Barbara Freese, Coal: A Human History in Environmental History 9
(January 2004)
Suzanne Marshall, “Lord, We’re Just Trying to Save Your Water”:
Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 100 (Autumn 2003)
Benita J. Howell, ed., Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the
Appalachian South in West Virginia History 59 (2001-2003)
Lucy G. Barber, Marching on Washington in Choice (September 2003)
Diana Muir, Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in
New England in Journal of Economic History 63 (June 2003)
“The Ambiguity of Doing Good; or, Making Change in Appalachia,”
(review essay) in Journal of Appalachian Studies 9 (Spring 2003), 230-37
Kenneth Warren, Waste, Wealth, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in
the Connellsville Coke Industry in Left History 8 (Spring 2003)
Jerald Podair, The Strike That Changed New York in Choice (May 2003)
Char Miller, ed., On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio
in Environmental History 8 (April 2003)
Robert S. Weise, Grasping atIndependence: Debt, Male Authority, and
Mineral Rights in Appalachian Kentucky, 1850-1915 in Journal of Southern History 69 (February 2003)
Katherine C. Shearer, ed., Memories from Dante: The Life of a Coal
Town, (May, 2002)
Richard P. Mulcahy, A Social Contract for the Coal Fields: The Rise and
Fall of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund in Ohio History 111 (Winter-Spring 2002), 65-66
Anne Lewis, To Save the Land and People in Appalachian Journal 28
(Winter 2001), 250-252
Donald Edward Davis, WhereThereAreMountains: An Environmental
History of the Southern Appalachiansin Environmental History 5 (October 2000), 568-569
Alan Derickson, Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster in
Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Spring 1999), 275-276
Documentary Films
“From SewerBasin to GreenwayRiver” (work in progress)
“The Village Empowerment Project,”(July 2008)
“Low Power,” (August 2007)
Grants
Creative Economy Grant ($40,000), University of Massachusetts President’s Office (2008-2009)
“Preparatory Work for LowerConcordRiver Documentary Film”
($7425), University Research and Scholarship Council Seed Funding Program, University of MassachusettsLowell(2007-2008)
“Building the Home Movie Archive,” Explorations in Teaching and
Learning Grant ($2400), University of MassachusettsLowell
(2006-2007)
Scholarly Research Forum Seed Grant ($2200), University of
MassachusettsLowell(2006)
Scholar in the City ($2800), Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center, Lowell
National Historical Park(2005)
“ConcordRiver Greenway History” Grant ($5000), with the Lowell
Parks and Conservation Trust, Massachusetts Foundation of the
Humanities (2004-2005)
“Developing a Home Movie Archive,” Council on Diversity and
Pluralism Seed Grant ($2000), University of MassachusettsLowell(2004-2005)
Social and Environmental History of GreatBrookFarmState Park Site,
Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Seed Grant ($2500), University of MassachusettsLowell(2004-2005)
Joseph P. Healey Seed Grant ($1500), University of Massachusetts
Lowell(2004)
Associated Colleges of the South Campus-Community Partnership
Grant ($2500)(2002)
Professional Activities
Professional Conference Participation
2007Presenter, “Michigan Autoworkers and the Rise of Modern
Environmentalism,” European Society for Environmental History
Conference
2007Presenter and Panel Organizer, “Building the Home Movie Archive,”
University of Massachusetts Instructional Technology Conference
2006Presenter (invited): “A Decent, Wholesome Living Environment
for Everyone: The UAW and Modern Environmentalism,” North
American Labor History Conference
2006Panel Chair (invited): The Roots of Environmental Justice, American Historical Association Conference
2005Presenter: “Degrees of Separation: Nature and the Shift from Farmer to Miner to Factory Hand,” Appalachian Studies Association Conference
2004 Presenter: “Realistic Regulation: How the Coal Industry Stopped the Abolition of Strip Mining,” Organization of American Historians Conference
2003Presenter: “Education for Sustainable Development: The Role of the Humanities and Social Sciences,” Committee on Industrial Theory and Assessment Education for Sustainability Conference
2003Presenter and Panel Organizer: Roundtable on Environmental History and the Appalachian South, American Society for Environmental History Conference
2003Presenter (invited): “Vollintine-Evergreen: An Environmental Case
Study,” Campus-Community Partnership Symposium, Associated Colleges of the South Meeting
2002Presenter: “Protecting Property: The Fight Against Strip Mining in Eastern Kentucky,” Social Science History Association Conference
2001Presenter: “History Lessons: Is There Anything to Learn from Past Opposition to Coal Surface Mining?,” American Society for Environmental History Conference
2000Presenter: “Our Country Would Be Better Fit for Farming: Ohio Farmers’ Opposition to Strip Mining,” American Society for Environmental History Conference
1999Presenter: “People Got to Worry About Their Jobs and Their Homes: The United Mine Workers and Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia,” Appalachian Studies Association Conference
1997Presenter: “Rethinking Municipal Housekeeping: Hull House Women and Sanitation Reform in Chicago, 1889-1913,” American Society for Environmental History Conference
Invited Lectures, Institutes, and Poster Sessions
2009 Tour Leader and Co-coordinator, Welcome Reception and ConcordRiver Day, for “Inventing Lowell,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, TsongasIndustrialHistoryCenter
2009Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “The New Negro, Garvey, and the UNIA,” and “Pacifism, Rustin, and CORE,” Teaching American History Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts
2009Guest Speaker, “Green Work for Relief and Recovery: The New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps,” Andover Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts
2009 Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Documentary Filmmaking: History and Practice” Teaching American History Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts
2009Keynote Speaker, “From the Ground Up: Rethinking
Environmentalism, Past and Present,” Justice in Action Conference
2009Guest Lecturer, “The ConcordRiver Greenway,” in “City and Environment” (Marie Frank), University of MassachusettsLowell
2008Tour Leader and Co-coordinator, Welcome Reception, Old Sturbridge Village Day, and Concord River Day, for “Inventing Lowell,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, Tsongas Industrial History Center
2008 Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Documentary Filmmaking: History and Practice” Teaching American History Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts
2008 Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Woman’s Suffrage, Women’s Rights” and “Documentary Filmmaking: History and Practice,” Teaching American History Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts
2008Guest Lecturer, “History of Documentary Film” and “History of Rock and Roll,” LowellHigh School
2008Guest Presenter, “History as Usable Past,” in “Historical Methods” (Johnathan Liebowitz), University of Massachusetts Lowell
2008Guest Lecturer, “Reducing Your Carbon Footprint” in “Introduction to Environmental Studies” (Vanessa Gray),University of MassachusettsLowell
2008Guest Lecturer, “Politics and Documentary Film, 1970s-1980s,” in “Politics and Film” (Jeffrey Gerson), University of MassachusettsLowell
2008Guest Presenter, “Landscapes Lost, Meanings Found: Lowell Operatives’ Changing Views of Nature,” Boston Environmental History Seminar Series, Massachusetts Historical Society
2008 Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “The U.S. Constitution: Context and Content” and “The Evolution of the Bill of Rights,” Teaching American History Institute, Lowell, Massachusetts
2007Guest Presenter, “Landscapes Lost, Meanings Found: Lowell Operatives’ Changing Views of Nature,” Staff Development Meeting, Lowell National Historical Park
2007 Guest Presenter, “Mill Girls and Immigrants,” Teaching American History Institute, Medford, Massachusetts
2007 Guest Presenter, “Women and the New England Textile Industry,” Teaching American History Institute, Medford, Massachusetts
2007 Guest Presenter, “U.S. Constitution: The Meaning of Equality, Natural Rights, and the Rule of Law,” Teaching American History Institute, MedfordMassachusetts
2007Guest Presenter, “Labor, Nature, and Industrial Change in New England,” OldSturbridgeVillage
2007Guest Presenter, “Landscapes Lost, Meanings Found: Lowell Operatives’ Changing Views of Nature,” Lowell Historical Society Annual Meeting
2007Historic Tour Leader: ConcordRiver Greenway Site, LowellParks and Conservation Trust, Lowell, Massachusetts
2007Exhibit Presentation, “Home Movie Archive,” Northeast Regional Computing Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts
2007Guest Presenter: “Home Movie Archive,” Integration of Teaching, Service, and Research Conversation Dinner, FacultyTeachingCenter, University of MassachusettsLowell
2006Guest Lecturer: “Ecological Revolutions?,” Staff Development Meeting, TsongasIndustrialHistoryCenter, Lowell, Massachusetts
2006Guest Lecturer: “Work, Culture, and Environment,” in“Environmental Philosophy” (Whitley Kaufman), University of MassachusettsLowell
2006Guest Lecturer and Discussant: Mountain Justice Film Festival, EastTennesseeStateUniversity
2006Panel Moderator: Documenting Lowell, Student Research Symposium, University of MassachusettsLowell
2005Guest Lecturer: “The ConcordRiver in Lowell: From Fishing Site to SewerBasin to Greenway Stream,” Parker Lecture Series, Lowell National Historical Park
2005Historic Tour Leader: ConcordRiver Greenway Site, LowellParks and Conservation Trust, Lowell, Massachusetts
2005Guest Lecturer and Discussant: “Fighting Back at Work,” Common Text Film Series, University of MassachusettsLowell
2005Guest Lecturer: “Environmental History of Industrial Development,” Science, Technology, and Engineering and the Sustainable Planet Institute, TsongasIndustrialHistoryCenter, Lowell, Massachusetts
2005Guest Lecturer: “The ConcordRiver Greenway History Project,” Learning in Retirement Association, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2005Guest Lecturer: “Coal Industry Games,” Mountain Justice Summer Campaign, Naoma, West Virginia
2005Co-organizer and Primary Lecturer (invited): Natural Rights – Revolutions, Constitutions, and Legacy, Teaching American History Institute (May-June), TsongasIndustrialHistoryCenter, Lowell, Massachusetts
2005 Organizer and Lecturer: American Labor History – Drawing Lessons from the Past for Today’s Battles, Worker Institute (April), Labor Extension Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2004Guest Lecturer: “Arguments, Tactics, and Context: The Changing Struggle Against Strip Mining in Appalachia,” Ohio River Festival of Books, Huntington, West Virginia
2003 Guest Lecturer: “Advice to History Majors,” Strategies for Success Program, University of MassachusettsLowell
2003Primary Lecturer (invited): Individualism, Industrialization, and Impacts on the Environment – Teaching the American Industrial Revolution for Middle School Teachers (June-August), TsongasIndustrialHistoryCenter, Lowell, Massachusetts
2003Guest Lecturer: “Critical Thinking and Rock & Roll,” Orientation Program, University of MassachusettsLowell
2002Guest Lecturer: “Changing Land Use in the United States,” Trezevant Manor, Memphis, Tennessee
2001Guest Lecturer: “Making Connections: Environmental Problems and Economic Injustice,” 14th Conference Against Hunger and Homelessness, National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, RhodesCollege, Memphis, Tennessee
General Media
Program Guest, “Environmentalism: Past, Present, and Future,” State of
Affairs, WFPL (April 3, 2009)
Co-Host, WUML (August 25, 2008)
“It’s Been Done Before,” in Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities
Gazette (forthcoming)
“Workers and the Environmental Movement” in MassCOSH Safety Net
(Summer 2008)
Co-Host, WUML (May 5, 2008)
Co-Host, WUML (March 26, 2008)
Co-Host, WUML (December 12, 2007)
Co-Host, WUML (October 29, 2007)
Interview, “Supreme Court Decision on EPA Regulatory Authority,” WUML
(April 2007)
“Concord River History” (brochure), LowellParks and Conservation Trust
(March 2006)
Interview, “Teaching, Politics, and Balance at UML,” WCAP(March 2006)
Interview, “ConcordRiver History,” WUML (October 2005)
Roundtable Discussion, “Bill of Rights,” WUML (July 2005)
“December 24-25, 2004,” “Ruth Thomas,” and “Fudo Myoo: The Immovable
One,” The Offering (Spring 2005)
“Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life,” The Bridge Review:
MerrimackValley Culture 5 (2005)
Roundtable Discussion, “U.S. Presidents,” WUML (February 2005)
“Strip Mining and the Death of Environmentalism” (posted January 14,2005),
Roundtable Discussion, “The Second Presidential Campaign Debate,” WUML
(October 2004)
Interview, “History, Protest, and the Democratic National Convention,” WUML
(July 2004)
Roundtable Discussion “Farenheit 9/11,” WUML (June 2004)
“Little Has Changed Over the Years in Strip Mining Debate,” Herald-Dispatch
(Huntington, West Virginia) Op-ed, July 8, 2003
“Hunting Grounds, Dairy Farms, and Housing Tracts: Three Centuries of
Environmental Change in the Vollintine-Evergreen Neighborhood,”
Vollintine-Evergreen News 29:1-4 (January-April 2003)
Service Activities
Department Service
September 2007-Member, Personnel Committee
Present
September 2003-Member, Curriculum Committee
Present
September 2008-Department Website Manager
May 2009
May 2008-Coordinator, Awards Committee
September 2008
September 2005-Advisor, History Society
May 2006
October 2005-Coordinator, Modern European Social History Job
May 2006Search
Spring 2003-Organizer, Department Course Fairs
Spring 2005
University Service
February 2009-Corporate Partnerships & Urban Engagement
PresentCommittee, Strategic Planning Commission (invited)
February 2009-Undergraduate Education and Academic Programs
PresentCommittee, Strategic Planning Commission (invited)
September 2005-University Research and Scholarship Council
Present(appointed)
September 2007-Gender Studies Steering Committee (elected
May 2009Program Director, May 2008 to May 2009)
November 2005-Massachusetts Society of Professors, Executive Board,
October 2007Social Sciences and Humanities Division (elected)
March 2006-TsongasIndustrialHistoryCenter, Search Committee for
July 2007Executive Director (appointed)
September 2002-Committee on Industrial Theory and Assessment
May 2007
May 2005-Interdisciplinary Environmental Programs Advisory
May 2006Committee (appointed)
September 2004-Undergraduate Environmental Health Program Advisory
December 2004Committee (appointed)
September 2002-Gender Studies Steering Committee
May 2005
March 2004-Massachusetts Society of Professors, Executive Board,
November 2004Social Sciences and Humanities Division (elected)
Community Service
2003-Consultant, LowellParks and Conservation Trust , Concord
PresentRiver Greenway Project (invited)
Fall 2006Creative Writing Workshop Instructor, United TeenEqualityCenter (Lowell, Massachusetts)