“Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley”

Prof. Kopp is an Environmental historian of the American West in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. His first book Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (Berkeley, 2016) won the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association’s Book Award in 2017.

Kopp is Associate Professor of History and Director of Public History at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.