Douglas Garrison

Biography

Douglas (Doug) Garrison is a First Year Ph.D. student at Notre Dame focusing on U.S. labor history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, specifically examining brewery workers in the German American diaspora, their unionization efforts, and the intersections of beer, culture, immigration, and transnational politics at the turn of the 20th century. Doug holds a MA in international studies from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies (2012) and a BA in political science from Colorado College (2010).

Upon completing his MA, Doug spent three years as Program Manager for the University of Denver’s Center for Middle East Studies, after which he took a hiatus from higher education to pursue a career in craft beer. From 2016-2018, Doug worked his way up from packaging to the brewhouse at BrewHub in Lakeland, FL, where his pilot recipe for English Bitter won a Gold Medal at the 2017 Great American Beer Festival. From 2018-2023, Doug was a brewer at BrewDog USA outside Columbus, OH. His seven years in the craft brewing industry left Doug with an abiding interest in food history and a profound appreciation for organized labor.

In 2023 Doug returned to higher education as an adjunct professor in the Political Science department at Columbus State Community College teaching American government, and later joined the adjunct faculty in Wilmington College’s History department teaching post-1865 American history.