Julia Fine, Postgraduate Plant Humanities Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks
Julia Fine received her A.B. from Harvard University in History & Literature. In 2019, Julia was a fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she worked on the Mellon-funded “Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures“ project. This year, she has joined the Plant Humanities Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks, where she explores the movement of plants through the lens of imperial ambitions specifically within the context of South Asia.
As the craft beer industry reckons with its oppressive past, it may be time to re-examine the complicated history (and present) of hops in the United States
