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