Bernath book prize of Historians of Foreign Relations and the Myers Outstanding Book Award, of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.Ĭontested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, Manisha Sinha and Penny Von Eschen co-editors includes, Penny M. Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957, Cornell University Press, 1997 winner of the 1998 Stuart L. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War, Harvard University Press, 2004, First Runner-Up for the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association, 2005. Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since1989, Duke University Press, 2022. She is currently working on a book project exploring crises of authority in anticolonial counterpublics in the years following WWII. She co-curated “Jam Sessions: American’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World,” a photography exhibition on the jazz ambassador tours, with Meridian International Center, Washington D.C., that opened in April 2008, and toured globally as well as in the United States. Von Eschen, “Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad: Rethinking Hard and Soft Power from the Outside In,” Columbia University Press, 2007 and American Studies: An Anthology, Janice Radway, Kevin Gaines, Barry Shank, and Penny Von Eschen editors, Blackwell Press, January 2009. She is a co-editor along with Manisha Sinha of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History, which includes, Penny M. She is author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989” (Duke University Press, 2022) 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. from the department of History, Columbia University in 1994.
Her scholarship is situated at the intersections of African American history, cultural history, the global cold war, and the study of the United States in global and transnational dimensions.
Professor of American Studies and Professor of History and at the University of Virginia.
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