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2020 Keynote Speaker

The 2020 Bluebonnet speaker will be Travis Rupp, Research & Development Manager and Beer Archaeologist at Avery Brewing Company, in Boulder Colorado.

Travis Rupp is both an adjunct lecturer at the University of Colorado Boulder in Classics, Anthropology, Art History, and Continuing Education and a full-time brewer in Special Projects at Avery Brewing Company.  

Travis teaches Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman art, archaeology, and history at CU Boulder.  He has presented at CAMWS (Classical Associations of the Middle West and South) His research interests combine his two professions and focus on beer and alcohol in antiquity.

Travis will give a short address, to kick off the weekend’s festivities and lead a technical discussion on Saturday morning. Travis is an accomplished beer scholar, as well as an entrepreneur with an impressive list of credentials at travisrupp.om/resume/.