Dylan C. Penningroth

Dylan C. Penningroth is Professor of Law and Morrison Professor of History at UC Berkeley. He specializes in African American history and legal history. His first book, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South, published by the University of North Carolina Press, won the 2004 Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award from the Organization of American Historians. His second book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights was published by Liveright in 2023. Penningroth’s articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, and TIME. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the MacArthur Foundation, and currently serves as Associate Dean of the Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at Berkeley Law School.