A Global History of the Cascade Hop

Learn how the craft beer revolution emerged from the hop fields and scientific research centers of the Pacific Northwest with Dr. Kopp, author of Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (University of California Press, 2016).

Dr. Kopp is a public historian of the North American West with specialties in the history of agriculture and the environment. His book, Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (University of California Press, 2016) won the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch Book Award for first time authors (2017). Dr. Kopp has also written articles and developed public history projects on tourism and the National Park Service, the built environment of the Southwest borderlands, and the “green” activism of the Grateful Dead. Currently, he is preparing a book manuscript on Fabián García, the “Father of New Mexico Chile.” Kopp earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nevada in 2012 and served as the Director of Public History at New Mexico State University from 2012-2019. He is currently an Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Presented in partnership with the Eugene Public Library Foundation and Eugene Public Library, all lecture series events are free and open to the public, and begin at 12pm using Zoom on the second Friday of each month. The Zoom room will open at 11:45am. Advanced registration is required by 10am the day of the event.