Allyson Brantley

Allyson P. Brantley writes and teaches about consumer society and politics, Latinx and labor histories, the United States-Mexico borderlands, and the history of beer and brewing in the United States. In her 2021 book, Brewing a Boycott, Brantley uses research in organizational records, activist publications, and oral histories to position the consumer campaign at the center of late 20th-century political culture and social movements.

Brantley is a recipient of a 2020-21 Mellon emerging Faculty Leaders Fellowship from the W.W. Foundation. In addition to teaching US and Latino history, she has taught global seminars in special topics such as Radical Resistance in the 20th Century. She holds a PhD in history from Yale University.
Books: Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors & Remade American Consumer Activism (2021)

Selected publications:

• “Borderlands of Work” in New Labor Forum
• “‘Mexico, At Our Very Door'”: Prohibition-Era Brewing in the US-Mexico Borderlands” in Journal of the West