Advisory Board
Penny Von Eschen
University of Michigan Penny Von Eschen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Her fields of study include African Americans and the politics of culture, particularly transnational cultural and political dynamics, and race, gender, and empire, especially the political culture of United States imperialism. She is author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz, Race and Empire During the Cold War forthcoming from Harvard University Press, and Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (1997), for which received the 1998 Stuart L. Bernath book prize from the Historians of Foreign Relations and the Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.
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