Chantal Norrgard

Chantal
Norrgard

Assistant Professor
Human Behav, Justice & Divsty
History | Gender Studies | First Nation Studies | Anthropology
Email:
Phone: 715-394-8424
Office: Swenson Hall 3104

Research Interests

Chantal’s research interests include Native American and Indigenous studies, Native American history, treaty rights, labor history and activism, and Ojibwe history.

Publications

  • Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014).
  • “Indigenous Labor, Settler Colonialism, and the History of the Fraser River Fishermen’s Strike of 1893.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 7, no. 2 (2020): 114-44.
  • “Monumental Encounters: Conservation, Memory, and the Reconstruction of Grand Portage, 1922-1958,” in Nature’s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota, ed. George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells (forthcoming, University of Pittsburgh Press).
  • “Welfare State, Settler State: Ojibwes, Social Citizenship, and Disaster Relief in the Great Fire of 1918,” Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era History, 14 (2015): 521-530.
  • “Beyond Folklore: Historical Writing and Treaty Rights Activism in the Bad River Works Progress Administration,” in Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building, eds. Brian Hosmer and Larry Nesper (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013).
  • “From Berries to Orchards: Tracing the History of Berrying and Economic Transformation among Lake Superior Ojibwe,” American Indian Quarterly 33, no.1 (Winter 2009): 34-61.

Awards

  • David Montgomery Award for best book in American Labor and Working Class History, Organization of American Historians and Labor and Working Class History Association, April 2015 for Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood
  • Five College Program for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas Fellowship, 2010-2011
  • Post-doctoral Fellow in History and Ethnic Studies, Lawrence University, 2008-2010
  • Michigan State University Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in American Indian Studies, 2007-2008
  • Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) American Indian Studies Fellowship, 2006
  • University of Minnesota, History Departmental Fellowship, 2006

Education

  • 2008 – Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – History, University of Minnesota
  • 2001 – Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – History, University of Minnesota