| Dylan C. Penningroth | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University; Johns Hopkins University |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellows Program |
Dylan C. Penningroth is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2012, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program grant.
Life
Penningroth received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1993 and his Masters (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) from Johns Hopkins University. His studies focus on elements of African American life under slavery and in the half-century following slavery’s abolition.
Works
- The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. Univ of North Carolina Press. 2003. pp. 312–. ISBN 978-0-8078-5476-1.
- Edward E. Baptist; Stephanie M. H. Camp, eds. (2006). "My People, My People". New Studies in the History of American Slavery. University of Georgia Press. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-0-8203-2694-8.
- Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (2023). New York: W. W. Norton.
Awards
In 2024 The Law and Society Association Honored Penningroth with the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize.
References
- Meet the Fellows / Class of 2012 MacArthur Fellow, Dylan C. Penningroth
- Tennison, Crissonna (2024-05-30). "LSA Announces 2024 Annual Award Winners". Law and Society Association. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
External links
- "Dylan C. Penningroth". Department of History at University of California, Berkeley. URL retrieved 31 July 2018.
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