Alison Orton
Graduate Student
History
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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Selected Publications
“Czech Beer in the United States: A ‘Perfect Brew,’” Slovo: A Publication of the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Vol. 15, No.1 (Summer 2015): 14-16.
Review of Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria, by Mary C. Neuburger, Ab Imperio, No. 1 (2014): 455-459.
“The Jungle in Pilsen,” Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies Austro-Americana Blog; https://botstiberbiaas.org/the-jungle-in-pilsen/
“The Separatist Evil,” Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies Austro-Americana Blog; https://botstiberbiaas.org/the-separatist-evil/
“The National Dispute,” Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies Austro-Americana Blog; https://botstiberbiaas.org/the-national-dispute/
Professional Leadership
League of Historians, Chicago Brewseum
Notable Honors
2017-2018, Marion S. Miller Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
2015-2016, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies Grant, The Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation
2015, Bentley B. Gilbert Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
2014, Transatlantic Summer Institute Fellowship, Center for German and European Studies
2014, Deena Allen Memorial Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
2013, Robert V. Remini Scholarship, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
2012, East European Language Training Grant, American Council of Learned Societies
2009-2013, History Doctoral Award, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Education
B.A. Mount Holyoke College 1994
M.S. Bank Street College of Education, 1998
M.A. University of Illinois at Chicago 2011
Courses Taught (as Teaching Assistant):
The World Since 1400
Western Civilization Since 1648
History of East-Central Europe and the Balkans
Russian History through Film, 20th Century
History of Modern Germany, 1848 - Present
History of Poland
Africa in the World to 1850
History of China from 1911
Early America: From Colonization to Civil War and Reconstruction
Modern America: From Industrialization to Globalization
Business, Technology, and the State
Selected Presentations
"Brewing Ethnicity: Using Beer to Ferment Group Belonging during the Late Habsburg Empire," Fr. Michael G. Morrison, SJ Professorship Lecture, Creighton University, Omaha 2020
"Better than Pop: A History of Midwestern Beer and its National Influence" Panelist, Newberry Library Foodways of the Midwest Series, Chicago 2020
“Citizen Pilsner: Beer as a Marker of Imperial Tensions and Class Identity in Satirical Publications, 1880-1914,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, San Francisco, 2019
“Immigrants and the American Mash Tun” panelist, Chicago Brewseum Beer Culture Summit, Chicago 2019
“The World Will Renounce Pilsner Beer: ‘Czech’ Beer as a Divisive and Cohesive Commodity, 1895-1914,” Czech and Slovak Studies Workshop, Austin, 2019
“Speaking to the Soul of the Worker: Migration and Labor Activism among Brewery Workers in the Czech Lands and the United States, 1880-1914,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston, 2018
“Returning to Pilsen: The Flow of Brewery Workers and Pro-Labor Discourse from the United States to Austria-Hungary, 1890-1914,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh 2018
“Brewing Ethnicity: Revisiting the 1897 Riots and Beer Boycotts in Pilsen,” Výzkumné Semináře Institutu Mezinárodních Studii & Masarykova Ústavu a Archivu, Prague, 2016
“German Anarchists and Bohemian Savages: Chicago’s Ethnic Militias and 1848 Ideologies,” Legacy of 1848 Conference, Wartburg College, 2013
Research Currently in Progress
Working title of dissertation: "Brewing Ethnicity: Beer Battles and Ethnic Fluidity in the Czech Lands and the United States, 1880-1918."