2000 B.A., History and Philosophy, Pacific University
Professional Experience
2019-Present: Associate Professor and Director/Co-Director of Public History Program, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
2012-19: Assistant/Associate Professor and Director of Public History Program, Department of History, New Mexico State University
2004-2006: Lecturer, Portland State University
2000-2006: Museum/Archive Technician, Oregon Historical Society
Book and Book Chapters
2016 Kopp, Peter A. Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. University of California Press, California Studies in Food and Culture No. 61.
American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Book Award for first time authors, 2017
Gourmand Award (Global Food Studies), For the Public Category, 2016
2014 Kopp, Peter A. “The Global Hop: An Agricultural Overview of the Brewer’s Gold.” In The Geography of Beer: Regions, Environment, and Societies, edited by Mark Patterson and Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, 77-88. New York: Springer, 2014.
Articles
2024 Powell, Ryan R. and Peter A. Kopp. “Early Tourism at Lake Tahoe: Rusticating amongst the Stumps.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 67/2 (2024): 3-21.
2023 Kopp, Peter A. “Bring Us in Good Ale: England’s Century-Long Hop Experiment.” Agricultural History 97/1, (March 2023): 121-145.
2014 Kopp, Peter A. “A Cattle Controversy: Great Basin National Park and the Struggle for Environmental Tourism in Nevada.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 57/1-2 (Spring/Summer 2014): 51-62.
2011 Kopp, Peter A. “‘Hop Fever’ in the Willamette Valley: The Local and Global Roots of a Regional Specialty Crop.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 112/4 (Winter 2011): 406-433.
2009 Kopp, Peter A. “The Green Grateful Dead: In the Dark as Environmental Text.” Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy 5/1 (Winter 2009): 222-234.
2009 Kopp, Peter A. “By Rail and By Road: Nevada Landscapes in Women’s Transcontinental Travelogues, 1873 – 1920.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 52/1 (Spring 2009): 3-32.
2002 Sinclair, Donna and Peter Kopp. “Voices of Oregon: Twenty-Five Years of Professional Oral History at the Oregon Historical Society.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 103/2 (Summer 2002): 250-63.
Book Reviews
2025
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Mark Twain, by Ron Chernow (New York: Penguin Press, 2025), for Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (forthcoming).
Kopp, Peter A. Review of First Fruits: The Lewellings and the Birth of the Pacific Coast Fruit Industry (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2025), for Oregon Historical Quarterly (forthcoming).
2024
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Octopus’s Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California, by Benjamin T. Jenkins (Lawrence: University of California Press, 2023), for Pacific Historical Review (2024) 93 (4): 669–671.
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Pioneering Death: The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-ofthe-Century Oregon, by Peter Boag (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022), for Nevada Historical Society Quarterly Volume 67, Number 2, 2024 pp. 67-68.
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Big Bend National Park: Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem, by Michael Welsh (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2021), for New Mexico Historical Review 99/1 (Winter 2024), 93-94.
2021
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism, by Allyson P. Brantley (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021) for Gastronomica 22/4 (Winter 2022).
2020
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Pleas and Petitions: Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado, by Virginia Sanchez (Louisville, CO: University of Colorado Press, 2020) for the Colorado Book Review, Center of Colorado Studies at Denver Public Library (Spring 2021).
2018
Kopp, Peter A. Extended review of Rethinking the Seeds of American Agricultural Exceptionalism: A Review of Courtney Fullilove, The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture (University of Chicago Press, 2017), for Agricultural History 92/2 (Spring 2018).
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Hop King: Ezra Meeker’s Boom Years, by Dennis M. Larsen (Washington State University Press, 2016), for Pacific Historical Review 87/2 (Spring 2018).
2015
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I, by Rose Hayden-Smith (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014), for The Public Historian 37/1 (February 2015).
2010
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Ho! For Wonderland: Travelers’ Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914, by Lee H. Whittlesey and Elizabeth A. Watry (University of New Mexico Press, 2009), for Annals of Wyoming (Winter 2010).
2009
Kopp, Peter A. Review of Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, and Space, by Susan Kollin (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), for Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment 16/2 (Summer 2009).
Grants Funded
2020 Faculty Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2020-2021
2019 Dissemination Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, 2019
2017
Travel Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University, 2017
Southwest and Border Cultures Institute Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University, 2017
2015 Southwest and Border Cultures Institute Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University, 2015
2013 Faculty Mini-Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University, for research in London and Canterbury, England, Summer 2013
Encyclopedia Entries
2013 Kopp, Peter A. and Ryan Powell. Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (Oxford University Press, 2013): “Nature and Environmentalism.”
2010 Kopp, Peter A. Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (Facts on File, 2010): “Woody Guthrie,” “Harold Ickes,” “Stephen Mather,” “nongovernmental organizations,” “sustainability,” “United States Forest Service.”
2009 Kopp, Peter A. Oregon Encyclopedia Project (Oregon Historical Society, 2009): “hop industry.”
Museum, Archival, and Historic Preservation Projects
2024 Co-Founder and Co-Project Leader (with Jerry Wallace), Fabián García Historic Markers and Trail, Las Cruces/Mesilla, New Mexico (includes National Historic Register nominations, creation of monuments, walking tour, and speaker series)
2023 Co-Founder and Co-Project Leader (with Matt Fulford), East High Community History Project, Denver, CO (inventory of collections, exhibit curation, and collaboration with high school students)
2022 Project Leader (with CU Denver Public History Program students), Golda Meir House Museum Redesign (cataloging, exhibits, programs, public programs, and education)
2021 Project Leader (with CU Denver Public History Program students), Reimagining the Golden History Museum’s Outdoor Park
2013-2016 Historical Advisor, Oregon Hops & Brewing Archive, Oregon State
University
2012-2015 Regional Administrator and Editor, Next Exit History
2014
Co-Curator (with NMSU Public History Program students), “Fabián García: Cultivating Character,” Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Co-Curator (with NMSU Public History Program students), “The Branigan Building: A Lasting Legacy,” Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2008 Curator, “Vacation Testing Ground: Early Women Tourists in Nevada,” Nevada Historical Society 2007 Visiting Archivist, Jarbidge Community Archive Project, Jarbidge, Nevada
2004-2006
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Ballot Measure Archive Project, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Documenting Sustainability in the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Oregon
Conference Presentations
2025 “Fabián García, Chile Peppers, and the Botanical Transformation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Albuquerque)
2024 “Fabián García’s Chile Pepper and the Botanical Transformation of the Borderlands,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, March 2024
2021 “Fabián García: The George Washington Carver of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Plenary Session for the Annual Meeting the Agricultural History Society, June 2021
2020
“Peter Darby and the Search for the Perfect English Hop,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, August 2020
“Teaching Public History in the Age of Covid,” Conference of the New Mexico Museums Association (Zoom), November 2020
“Fabián García, Chile Peppers, and the Botanical Transformation of the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands,” Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Latin American Studies: paper excepted; conference canceled
2019 “Public Histories of the Borderlands: A Showcase of Recent Projects,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Las Vegas, NV), October 2019
2018 “The Murals of Las Cruces Project and the Ephemerality of Paint,” Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History (Las Vegas, NV), April 2018
2016 “Hop Center of the World: The Willamette Valley’s Place in Global Beer Making,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (St. Paul, MN), October 2016
2015
“Craft Beer, History, and the Public,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Portland, OR), October 2015
“Breaking Down Professional Barriers: Collaborations Between Historians and Archivists,” Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History (Nashville, TN), April 2015
2014 “Fabián García: Borderland Horticulturalist,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Newport Beach, CA), October 2014
2013 “Finding Place in the Land of Enchantment: An Agricultural Historian Reflects on His First Year in New Mexico,” Bridging Ages Conference (Las Cruces, NM), April 2013
2012 “The Multiple Meanings of an Annual Harvest: ‘Hop Picking Time’ in the
Willamette Valley,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Denver, Colorado), October 2012
2010
“Great Basin National Park and the Struggle for Environmental Tourism in Nevada,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Incline Village, Nevada), October 2010
“The Hop Wizard of Corvallis: How Alfred Haunold Changed Our Beer,” Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society (Winter Park, Florida), June 2010
2009 “Hops Rising: The Emergence of an Oregon Specialty Crop,” Pacific Northwest History Conference (Portland, Oregon), April 2009
2008 “Hops: An Enduring Specialty Crop of the Pacific Northwest,” Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society (Reno, Nevada), June 2008
Invited Academic Presentations
2023 “Fabián García’s Chile Pepper and the Botanical Transformation of the Borderlands,” Rosenberry Lecture Series, History Colorado
2022
“Fabián García and the Botanical Transformation of the Borderlands,” Interdisciplinary Exchange, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, CU Denver
“Fabián García and the Botanical Transformation of the Borderlands,” New Mexico State University
2019
“Fabián García and the New Mexico Chile Pepper,” Interdisciplinary Exchange, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
“Gifford Pinchot and the Early United States Forest Service,” Nevada History Teacher’s Symposium, National Automobile Museum, Reno, NV
2018
“A History of Hoptopia,” Washington State University, Pullman, WA
“A Global History of Hops and the Craft Beer Revolution,” El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
2017
“A Global History of the Cascade Hop,” University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
“A History of Hops and the Craft Beer Revolution,” University of North CarolinaCharlotte, Charlotte, NC
“A History of Hops and the Craft Beer Revolution,” Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT
“A History of Hops and the Craft Beer Revolution,” New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM
2016
“An Overview of Hoptopia,” Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
“An Overview of Hoptopia,” Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2015 “The Long History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments,” University of Nevada, Reno, NV
2013 “Lincoln’s Western Vision and the Specialty Crop Revolution,” University of Nevada, Reno, NV
2012
“The Local and Global Roots of the Craft Beer Revolution,” Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
“Dry Days in the Far West: The Prohibition Era,” Biennial History Symposium, National Automobile Museum, Reno, Nevada
2011 “Valley of the Willamette: An American Hoptopia,” University of Nevada
2010 “The Professionalization of Public History,” University of Nevada
2008 “Vacation Testing Ground: Early Women Tourists in Nevada,” Nevada Historical Society, Reno, Nevada
Community Presentations
2024 “Fabián García: Civil Servant and Chile Pepper King,” Bureau of Land Management, Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Denver, Colorado
2022 “A History of Hoptopia,” Foothills Genealogical Society, Golden CO
2021 “A Global History of the Cascade Hops,” Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR
“A History of Hops and the Craft Beer Revolution,” Colorado Corral of the Westerners, Denver, CO
2019 “Fabián García and the Chile Pepper Connection,” New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum
2018
“A History of the Nineteenth-Century American West,” (4-part series) Academy for Learning in Retirement, Las Cruces, NM
“The History and Science Behind the Craft Beer Revolution,” Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
2017
“Fabián García and the Chile Pepper Connection,” Doña Ana County Historical Society, Las Cruces, NM
“Murals of Las Cruces Launch Party/Street Art: A Public Conversation,” New Mexico State University Art Gallery (Las Cruces, NM), (Organizer/Moderator with Norma Hartell)
“Dry Days in the American West: The Prohibition Era,” Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM
“A Global History of the Cascade Hop,” McMenamin’s Edgefield, Portland, OR
“A History of Hops and the Craft Beer Revolution,” Las Cruces Railroad Museum, Las Cruces, NM
2016
“The Origins of the National Park Idea and the National Park Service,” Academy for Learning in Retirement, Las Cruces, NM
“An Overview of Hoptopia,” Powell’s Books, Portland, OR
“Fabián García and the Remaking of New Mexico Agriculture,” Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM
2015 “Introducing the Murals of Las Cruces Project,” Doña Ana County Historical Society, Las Cruces, NM
2014 “The Road to Hoptopia,” as part of the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archive (OHBA) Launch Party, Mission Theatre, Portland, Oregon
2013
“Replanting the Mesilla Valley: Fabián García’s Horticultural Legacy in a Global Context,” Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM
“The Origins of Hoptopia,” Mission Theater, Portland, Oregon
2011
“Valley of the Willamette: An American Hoptopia,” Reno Lion’s Club
“A Brief History of Hoptopia,” McMenamin’s Bagdad Theatre, Portland, Oregon
“A Brief History of Hoptopia,” Elderhostel, Salem, Oregon
Interviews, Podcasts, and Guest Blog Entries
2024 Preserving History and Democracy Podcast (on Fabián García), October 2, 2024 (forthcoming)
2023 Interview with Denver 7 on New Mexico Chile Peppers, September 21, 2023
2018
Eat This Podcast interview with Jeremey Cherfas (on Hoptopia). April 2, 2018.
New Books Network interview by Sean Munger (on Hoptopia). March 9, 2018.
2023 Harlie McBride, Grace Foster, Ben Humphries, David Anderson
2022 Kayla Hldaky
2019 Craig Platzke, Carolyn Williams, Vvdaul Holloway, Santiago Martinez
2018 Luke Manders, Jesus Vidrio, Victor Apodaca
2017 Alyssa Brillante, Heidi Iverson, Laura Salas, Camille Ville, Mark Garnes
2016 Jamie Jones, Ben Craske
2015 Derek Travis, Alex Inshishian, James Thumm
2014 Amado Guzman, Barbara Bogucki
2013 Danielle Archuleta
MA Committee Member
2025 Indira Saha
2024 Natalie Brown, Kelly Schultz, Lindy Hensley
2023 Nick Ota-Wang, Whitney Roberts
2022 Noah Allen, Ed Westergaard, Joel Rosenstein
2021 Parker Louviere
2020 Brooke Garcia
2019 Eric Ellis, Lidia Avina, Kaylyn Mercuri
2018 Shannon Cowell, Marissa Bailey
2017 Joseph Seagrove, Breauna Sanchez, Christina Montero, Kathryn Keene
2016 Norma Hartell, Megan Schaeffer, Ross Howerton, Amanda Alvey
2015 Daniel Roberts, Christopher Lee
2014 Matthew Cuba
Leadership and Service
Department
2022-present
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
Executive Committee, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
2020-present
Co-Director of Public History and Museum Studies Program, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
Public History Committee (including PH MA redesign in 2022, Museum Studies Cert. in 2022, renaming of PH course in 2021), Department of History, University of Colorado Denver
2019-20 Faculty Tenure-Track Search Committee Member, Department of History, University of Colorado Denver, 2019-2020
2012-2019
Director of Public History Program, Department of History, New Mexico State University
Public History Committee (Chair), Department of History, New Mexico State University
Graduate Student Committee, Department of History, New Mexico State University, 2012-2019
Technology/Website Committee, Department of History, New Mexico State University, 2012-2016
2015-16 Strategic Planning Committee, Department of History, New Mexico State University
2013-14
Faculty Tenure-Track Search Committee Member, Department of History, New Mexico State University, 2013-2014
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History, New Mexico State University, 2013
College
2023 Established Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies (with Rachel Gross)
2019-2022 Immigration Studies Certificate Administrator, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
2016-18 Digital Humanities Working Group, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
2016-17 Grant Reviewer, Southwest and Borders Culture Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
2013 Faculty Advisor, Arts and Science Council, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
University
2021-2024 Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, University of Colorado Denver
2022 Faculty Research Council, University of Colorado Denver
National/International
2023-24
Organizer, Graduate Student Workshop and Awards, Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Las Cruces, NM
Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Denver, CO
2020-2024 Public History Committee, Western History Association
2020-2022 Book Award Committee (Chair in 2022), Pacific Coast BranchAmerican Historical Association
2021 Local Arrangements Committee/Tour Organizer, Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, Portland, OR, 2021
2017-2020 Book Award Committee (Chair in 2018), National Council on Public History
2017-2018 Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History
Society
2018 Grant Application Reviewer, University of Wisconsin
2013 Fellowship Application Reviewer, German Historical Institute
2012-13 Program and Local Arrangements Committee, Bridging Ages Conference, Las Cruces, NM
2009-2010 Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Conference of the Western History Association, Incline Village, Nevada
2008 Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Reno, Nevada
Conference Panel Organizer, Chair, and Comment
2025 Session Organizer, “A Critical Celebration of the New Mexico Chile Pepper,” Annual Meeting of the Western Historical Association, October 2025
2024
Session Organizer, “The Spicy Life: Environmental and Cultural Histories of the New Mexico Chile Pepper,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, March 2024
Session Organizer, All-Day Special Grad Session, Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, June 2024
2022
Session Chair and Comment, “Urban and Suburban Dispossession,” Annual Meeting of American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, August 2022
Session Chair and Comment, “Masculinity in the British-Canadian Diaspora,” Annual Meeting of American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch, August 2022
2020
Session Organizer, “Beer as. Vehicle for Historical Inquiry” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, August 2020
Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Latin American Studies: paper accepted; conference canceled, (also session organizer for panel “Chile Peppers, Mountains, and Birds: Geographies and Histories of the Chihuahuan Desert Borderlands”), Spring 2020
2019
“Public Histories of the Borderlands: A Showcase of Recent Projects,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Las Vegas, NV), October 2019 (session organizer and chair)
2018 “The Murals of Las Cruces Project and the Ephemerality of Paint,” Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History (Las Vegas, NV), April 2018 (session organizer, chair, and presenter)
2016 “Hop Center of the World: The Willamette Valley’s Place in Global Beer Making,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (St. Paul, MN), October 2016 (also organized the session called “Specialty Crops and the Cultivation of Place”)
2015 “Craft Beer, History, and the Public,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Portland, OR), October 2015 (session organizer, chair, and presenter)
2014 “Fabián García: Borderland Horticulturalist,” Annual Meeting of the Western History Association (Newport Beach, CA), October 2014 (also organized the session called “Borderlandscapes of the Rio Grande”)
2013 “Agricultural History in the Age of Michael Pollan,” Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society (Banff, Alberta), June 2013 (session organizer and chair)
“Finding Place in the Land of Enchantment: An Agricultural Historian Reflects on His First Year in New Mexico,” Bridging Ages Conference (Las Cruces, NM), April 2013
Book and Article Referee for:
Oregon State University Press
Texas A&M University Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Oklahoma Press
Washington State University Press
Agricultural History
Journal of Rural Studies
Modern American History
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
New Mexico Historical Review
Oregon Historical Quarterly
Pacific Historical Review
The Public Historian
Awards
2018 Hall of Fame Award, Doña Ana County Historical Society
2017 Book award for first-time authors. AHA Pacific Coast Branch. ($750)
2016
Book award. Gourmand Food Awards, for the Public Category
National Park Service Centennial Programming Award (with Jon Hunner, Dwight Pitcaithley, and Carol Campbell), College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
2014
Discovery Scholars Mentoring Award, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Outreach, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
2016 Course Release Award, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
2013 Digital History and Graduate Studies Award, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
2011 Honorable Mention Joel Palmer Best Article Award, for “‘Hop Fever’ in the Willamette Valley: The Local and Global Roots of a Regional Specialty Crop,” Oregon Historical Quarterly (Winter 2011): 406-433.
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