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Penny Von Eschen
Professor
Ph.D. Columbia, 1994
Other U of M Affiliation:
Program in American Culture
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Contact Information:
University of Michigan
3640 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-6157
E-mail:
pmve@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
African Americans and the politics of culture with a particular focus on transnational cultural and political dynamics, and Race, Gender, and Empire: the political culture of United States imperialism.
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Biography:
Penny Von Eschen is Professor of History and American Culture at the
University of Michigan. She is the author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Harvard University Press, 2004; and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957, Cornell University Press, 1997. She is co-editor, along with Manisha Sinha, of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, Columbia University Press, 2007; and co-editor along with Janice Radway, Kevin Gaines, and Barry Shank of American Studies: An Anthology, Blackwell-Wiley Press, 2008. Von Eschen was awarded the 2008 Dave Brubeck Institute Distinguished Achievement Award and has co-curated the photography exhibition, Jam Sessions: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World with Curtis Sandberg, Vice-President for the Arts at Meridian International Foundation in Washington D.C. The exhibit opened in April 2008 in Washington D.C. and is traveling nationally and internationally. She is currently working on a transnational history of Cold War nostalgia.
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