Dylan C. Penningroth
Research Professor
- 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
- 4th Floor
- Chicago, IL 60611
Joint appointment
Associate Professor and Wayne V. Jones Research Professor, Northwestern University
Education
Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University
Curriculum vitae
Research focus
African American history, comparative histories of slavery and emancipation, and socio-legal history. Research has focused on the history of black family and community life, the ownership of property by slaves, and ideologies of slavery in the U.S. and Ghana.
Projects
- Legacies of Slavery in Early-twentieth-century Gold Coast Africa
- Latest finding: Jan 24, 2008
- The histories of Ghana and the U.S. South during the nineteenth century were significantly shaped by debates about the claims that slaves and their descendants made to kinship and to the products of…
- Law and Everyday Life among Black Southerners
- Latest finding: Jan 24, 2008
- This study focuses on husband-wife relations, the rise of the independent black church, migration, and the interaction between legal categories and popular conceptions such as respectability and…
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Publications
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“The Claims of Slaves and Ex-Slaves to Family and
Property: A Transatlantic Comparison”
- American Historical Review
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“African American Divorce in Virginia and
Washington, D.C., 1865-1930”
- Journal of Family History
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The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and
Community in the Nineteenth Century South
- University of North Carolina Press
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Presentations
- “The Preacher's Wife: Law, Divorce, and Respectability among African Americans, 1865-1930”
- Dec 2007
- Slaves’ Claims to Family and Property in Southern
Gold Coast and the U.S. South
- Sep 2007
- "The Idea of Ancestry: Family Land and Local Courts in the Jim Crow South"
- Jan 2006
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Professional Service & Recognition
- National Science Foundation grant, 2009-12
- EBSCOhost: America: History and Life Award of the Organization of American Historians (article prize for "The Claims of Slaves and Ex-slaves...: A Transatlantic Comparison")
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of American History
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Newberry Library
- Wayne V. Jones Research Professorship, 2008-10
- Teaching Award, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern
- Member, Surrency Prize Committee, American Society for Legal History
- Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
- Avery Craven Prize, Organization of American Historians
- Allan Nevins Prize, Society of American Historians