The majority of the stories that beer history has traditionally shared are those of white men making, creating, and doing all of the things in and for the beer industry. It is a male-centric niche of history. And while beer history studies is a newer field recognized in the academic landscape, it’s no surprise that it too is a male dominated area of study.
Archaeologist and historian Dr. Christina Wade, archivist Tiah Edmunson-Morton, and organizer, attorney, author and documentarian Atinuke “Tinu” Akintola Diver discuss the unique experiences (both successes and roadblocks) they have seen throughout their careers researching, collecting and documenting beer and brewing history in a man’s world. This session is moderated and hosted by co-founder of the Albany Ale Project, Craig Gravina.
Grounded in the spirit of Charles Hamilton Houston’s adage that a lawyer is either a social engineer or a social parasite, Atinuke “Tinu” Akintola Diver grounds her creative, legal, and community practices in ways that seek to build and regenerate, rather than to purely extract and exploit. A first-generation American and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Tinu was born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland and currently resides with her family in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earned her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and a Certificate in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Tinu is Co-Director of the short documentary film QUILT JOURNEYS; Co-Producer of the short audio documentary MASTERPIECE; Director/ Producer of the short documentary 98; and Director/Producer of the feature-length documentary film THIS BELONGS TO US which explores the history of race and craft beer.
Tiah Edmunson-Morton is an Archivist and Faculty Research Assistant at Oregon State University's Special Collections and Archives Research Center, where she started the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, the first in the country, in 2013. Beyond her work as an archivist, teacher, and oral historian, she researches and writes about beer in the Pacific Northwest, with a particular focus on the wives of 19th brewers. She has an MLIS from San José State University, MA in English Literature from Miami University, and is a Certified Archivist.
Craig Gravina (moderator) is a world-class beer drinker. He is so infatuated with the sudsy stuff he took to researching and writing about it over the last ten years. In the course of his exploration of all things beery, he stumbled across the brewing history of the upper Hudson River valley and the long-lost story of Albany Ale. This re-discovery resulted in the Albany Ale Project, an international, collaborative research endeavor, a co-authored book—Upper Hudson Valley Beer—numerous articles, and more public programs, tours and talks than he can count! All are focused on bringing the history and stories of an industry that helped to build the capital city of New York state to light.
Dr. Christina Wade is a historian and archaeologist currently writing a book about the beer history of Ireland from the medieval period to the modern craft beer movement. She is the president and founder of the Ladies Craft Beer Society of Ireland and beer historian, co-host, and editor at The Beer Ladies Podcast. Wade is also a BJCP Certified Beer Judge.
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