Email: jkrenzke@luc.edu
Office: Crown Center 334C
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Robert Bucholz
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History, Ph.D. Program
Adviser: Dr. Robert Bucholz
Dissertation Title: “Change is Brewing: The Industrialization of the Beer-Brewing Industry, 1500-1750”
Major Field: Early Modern Europe specializing in sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century British history
Minor Field: Modern Europe
August 2007-Present
GPA: 3.978
Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences
Master of Arts, June 2004
Author of “Mending One’s Own Roof in a Thunderstorm”: The Recoinage Crisis of 1696-1699.
Adviser: Dr. Steven Pincus
GPA: 3.6
Curtis L. Carlson School of Business
Bachelor of Science in Business, May 2003
Major: Marketing Second Major: History
History GPA: 3.79 Cumulative GPA: 3.47
My primary current research interest is in the growth and adaptation of the beer-brewing trade in London in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. My current project examines the transformation of the beer-brewing trade from a household industry in the fifteenth century that was dominated by women to an industry with large and rapidly industrializing breweries dominated by a professional cadre of male brewers by the eighteenth century. Over the course of this examination I intend to answer how the introduction of hops and coal on the industry allowed brewers to grow breweries to an industrial scale, how and why one oppressed group- foreign males from Germany and the Low Countries- were able to overcome many of the same legal obstacles that were to plague another oppressed group- native females- to transform the beer-brewing industry in fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and finally how and in what ways the introduction of the exicse tax in 1643 was to create the conflicts between brewers and excisemen that paved the way for a new beer style, porter, that would allow for the complete industrialization of the industry in the eighteenth century.
Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year
Awarded by the Schmitt Foundation and intended to support Ph.D. students who are in the final stage of doctoral work
Loyola Pre-Doctoral Teaching Scholars Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year
Awarded by the Loyola University Graduate School to six scholars in the Liberal Arts
The Teaching Scholars act as mentors to new instructors of record in the Liberal Arts during the 2012-2013 academic year
Loyola Advanced Doctoral Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year
Awarded by the Loyola University Graduate School as support while fellows pursue full-time dissertation work
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Berkeley, CA
“The Wages of Sin: Resistance to the Beer Excise in London, 1660-1720”
March 2013
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Seattle, WA
“The Politics of Strange Bedfellows: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough's Influence on Whig Politics, 1714-1744”
March 2011
Midwest Conference on British Studies Cleveland, OH
“Political Capital: The Investment Strategies of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough”
October 2010
Loyola History Graduate Student Association Conference Chicago, IL
“Political Capital: The Investment Strategies of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough”
April 2010
Loyola Women and Leadership Archives Lunch Lecture Series Chicago, IL
“Political Capital: The Investment Strategies of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough”
February 2010
Midwest Conference on British Studies Pittsburgh, PA
Adjunct History Instructor January 2011-Present
Loyola University Chicago, Department of History Chicago, IL
Adjunct History Instructor Sept. 2005-Aug. 2012
The College of DuPage, Department of History Glen Ellyn, IL
Adjunct History Instructor Jan. 2005-March 2006
The Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
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