Max Fraser

Max Fraser is a historian and Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College who specializes in American labor and migration history. His book Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class (Princeton University Press, 2023) examines the mass migration of poor and working-class white southerners to the industrial Midwest, and received Honorable Mention for the 2024 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.

history labor history American history