Dylan C. Penningroth


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 and Ph.D. 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

Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. New York: W. W. Norton.

Awards

In 2024 The Law and Society Association Honored Penningroth with the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize.