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

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life under slavery and in the half-century following slavery’s abolition.Meet the Fellows / Class of 2012 MacArthur Fellow, Dylan C. Penningroth
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Works

* * * ''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

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