Dylan C. Penningroth
Professor of Law and History
Associate Dean, Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy / Legal Studies
dcap@law.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-664-4985 | Fax: 510-642-2951
442 Law Building (North Addition), Berkeley, CA 94720 MC:7200
Faculty Support Contact: Tyler Slay
Areas of Expertise: Law and Society | Legal History | Racial and Social Justice
Publications
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Dylan C. Penningroth specializes in African American history and in U.S. socio-legal history. His first book, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), won the Avery Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians. His articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, and the Journal of Family History. Penningroth has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Stanford Humanities Center, and has been recognized by the Organization of American Historians’ Huggins-Quarles committee, a Weinberg College Teaching Award (Northwestern University), a McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence (Northwestern), and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
Before joining Berkeley Law in 2015, Dylan Penningroth was on the faculty of the History Department at the University of Virginia (1999-2002), at Northwestern University (2002-2015), and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation (2007-2015).
Penningroth is currently working on a study of African Americans’ encounter with law from the Civil War to the modern civil rights movement. Combining legal and social history, the study explores the practical meaning of legal rights for black life. It will be published by Liveright in fall 2023. His next project is a study of the legacies of slavery in colonial Ghana.
For office hours, see Jurisprudence & Social Policy / Legal Studies.
Education
B.A., Yale University (1993)Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (2000)
Profiles
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Dylan Penningroth is teaching the following course in Fall 2022:
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