Caroline Dodds Pennock is a Historian. She is Professor in International History in the School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the

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. She is an expert on the

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, early modern history, women and gender, and the history of Indigenous Americans.

Education

Dodds Pennock received a D.Phil. from the

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in 2004. Her thesis was entitled ''Warriors and Workers: Duality and Complementarity in Aztec Gender Roles and Relations''.

Career

Dodds Pennock was Lecturer and then Research Fellow at the

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, and then Lecturer in Early Modern History at Leicester University, before moving to Sheffield. Her book ''Bonds of Blood'' won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize in 2008. Her book ''On Savage Shores: How America Discovered the World'' was published in 2023. It was the ''

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'' Best Book of the Year 2023, the

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Book of the Year 2023, the ''

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'' Book of the Year and one of the ''Smithsonian Magazine''‘s Ten Best History Books of 2023. It was also a ''BBC History Magazine'' Book of the Year 2023, and one of History Workshop’s ‘Radical Reads’ for 2023. It was serialised as the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. For her "exceptional contributions to revealing histories of early contact between civilisations and expanding our understanding of civilisation", Dodds Pennock was awarded the 2023 Humanists UK Voltaire Medal. Dodds Pennock has contributed to the BBC, Netflix, and the Science Channel, and has written for ''BBC History Magazine'', ''History Today'', and ''Scientific American''. She was a guest historian on the BBC's You're Dead To Me on the Aztecs.

References

{{Authority control Living people Academics of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Leicester Academics of the University of Sheffield Alumni of the University of Oxford British women historians Historians of Mesoamerica Historians of Native Americans Women classical scholars Year of birth missing (living people)