Dylan C. Penningroth is a historian and professor at the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. In 2012, he was the recipient of a
MacArthur Fellows Program grant.
Life
Penningroth received his Bachelor of Arts degree from
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
in 1993 and his Masters (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) from
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...
.
His studies focus on elements of
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
life under slavery and in the half-century following slavery’s abolition.
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Works
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* ''Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights'' (2023). New York: W. W. Norton.
References
External links
"Dylan C. Penningroth"
Department of History at University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. URL retrieved 31 July 2018.
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
MacArthur Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male non-fiction writers
Yale University alumni
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