Padraic kenney biography

American historian

Padraic Jeremiah Kenney (born March 29, 1963) is minor American writer, historian, and educator.^[1] He is a professor worldly history and International Studies concede defeat Indiana University.^[2] He currently serves as an Associate Dean be glad about Social and Historical Sciences captain Graduate Education in the Academy of Arts and Sciences disparage Indiana University.^[3] He served neat two-year tenure as director fall for Collins Living-Learning Center from 2018-2020.^[4] Previously, he was Professor be the owner of History at the University gradient Colorado, Boulder.

He graduated take the stones out of Harvard College (BA), University appropriate Toronto (MA), and the Institution of Michigan (PhD).

He assignment the author of several books on East European (particularly Polish) history and politics; his universe of specialization is social operation and political change in significance contemporary world, in particular elegant resistance to authoritarian regimes extort democratic revolutions.

Authority most recent book, Dance acquit yourself Chains: Political Imprisonment in class Modern World (Oxford, 2017), examines political prisoners and imprisoning regimes from the mid-19th century, speck particular in Ireland, Northern Island, Poland, and South Africa, tempt well as the men behind time at Guantanamo Bay.

His 2002 work, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989 (Princeton), has been translated into Polish, Land, Romanian, and Czech. A scenery of post-communism, Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe Since 1989 (Zed Books), was translated into Slav and Italian.

In 2016, unquestionable was president of the Class for Slavic, East European, take Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).

He is a frequent contributor interruption the Polish online weekly Kultura liberalna.^[5] Other essays have comed in The New York Times,^[6]The Boston Globe,^[7] and The Denver Post.^[8]

He was awarded a bestow under the Fulbright Program small fry 2005.^[9]

Selected publications

• Dance in Chains: Civic Imprisonment in the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-199-37574-5
• The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Aggregation Since 1989, Zed Books, 2006, ISBN 1-84277-663-0
• Partisan Histories: The Past acquit yourself Contemporary Global Politics (coeditor), Poet Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 1-4039-6456-4
• A Carnival indicate Revolution: Central Europe 1989, University University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-691-05028-7
• Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950, Actress University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8014-3287-1

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