Name: First Fridays: Pat Munday The U.S. environmental movement in the 1960s
Start: 2025-11-07T12:00:00-07:00
Location: 226 W Broadway St, Butte, MT, United States, Montana 59701

First Fridays: Pat Munday The U.S. environmental movement in the 1960s

Pat Munday has been with Montana Tech in Butte since 1990 and is a Professor of Science & Technology Studies with the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Department. His service includes more than than $1 million in grants for environmental stream restoration, a popular book about the Big Hole River, building academic partnerships with Chinese universities, and working with Butte’s Mai Wah Society and its museum. In addition to Montana Tech, Professor Munday has taught in China four times at three different universities. His courses include U.S. Environmental History, Social Science Research Methods, and History of Technology & Society. He took the PhD in history & philosophy from Cornell University, holds Masters degrees from Cornell and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and double-majored in engineering and humanities with Drexel University. He has held three Fulbright Awards from the U.S. State Department.
Pat’s Chinese name, given to him by his Chinese graduate students, is猎人—“Lee-a Ren”, which means “Hunter”. He grew up in a small town in the Allegheny Mountains in a family of subsistence hunters and farmers. He is a year-round outdoorsman, defining the calendar by cross country skiing, trout fishing, backpacking, and elk hunting.