Peter A. Kopp writes about food and why the botanical world around us exists in the way that it does.
He is the award-winning author of Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley and is finishing a biography on Fabián García—the father of the New Mexico chile pepper industry. Ongoing projects examine the fate of WWII victory gardens and agriculture in outer space.
Kopp is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver where he co-directs the Public History and Museum Studies Program. In that role, he has worked on the East High School Community History Project, Colorado Encyclopedia, Murals of Las Cruces, and a variety of museum exhibitions.
Kopp is available for media, presentations, consulting, and community collaborations.
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