H. Glenn Penny, born Stuttgart, Germany, 1964, is an American historian.  His research has focused on histories that show the connections between peoples in German-speaking central Europe and the Americas.  Currently Penny is Professor and Henry J. Bruman Chair in German History at University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

Education

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Penny studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder, (B.A. 1987, M.A. 1991) and holds a Ph.D. from the department of history, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  He was Assistant Professor of History at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, and then the University of Iowa,[2] where he rose to Associate Professor and professor in the Department of History.[3]

Fellowships

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Penny was a James Bryant Conant Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University[4] and a 2017 Senior Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study..[5]  He is a 2021 recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.[6]

Publications

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Penny has written dozens of articles, edited two anthologies, and authored four books:

Objects of Culture:  Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002).[7][8]

Kindred by Choice:  Germans and American Indians since 1800 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)[9][10]

In Humboldt’s Shadow:  A Tragic History of German Ethnology (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2021).[11]

German History Unbound: 1750s to the Present.  (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2022).[12]

Awards and recognitions

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  • Objects of Culture received the Charles Smith Award from the Southern Historical Association in 2004 and the William A. Douglass Prize in European Anthropology and Honorable Mention from the American Anthropological Association, 2003.[13]
  • Kindred by Choice received the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Book Award,[14] the Franz Steiner Book Award of the German Historical Institute, and was named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

References

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  1. ^ Penny, Glen (2022-07-05). "Glenn Penny". UCLA History Department. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  2. ^ Penny, H. Glenn. "Iowa has deep German roots". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  3. ^ "History Professor Glenn Penny receives 2015 Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Humanities Research Award | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 2015-03-09. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  4. ^ "Objects of Culture by Hsiao-Yuh Ku - Ebook". Everand. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  5. ^ "Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin". H. Glenn Penny, Ph.D. (in German). Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  6. ^ "H. Glenn Penny". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  7. ^ Schindlbeck, Markus (2004). "Review of Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany". Paideuma. 50: 306–309. ISSN 0078-7809.
  8. ^ Frohman, Larry (2003). "Review of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany; Objects of Culture. Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany". Social History. 28 (3): 403–407. ISSN 0307-1022.
  9. ^ Watzke, Petra (2015). "Review of Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800". German Studies Review. 38 (2): 418–420. ISSN 0149-7952.
  10. ^ Lindner, Markus H. (2014). "Penny, H. Glenn: Kindred by Choice. Germans and American Indians since 1800". Anthropos. 109 (2): 729–730. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2014-2-729. ISSN 0257-9774.
  11. ^ "In Humboldt's Shadow | Princeton University Press". press.princeton.edu. 2021-06-15. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  12. ^ "H. Glenn Penny | European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme | 2018-2019". www.2018-2019.eurias-fp.eu. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  13. ^ "Objects of Culture | H. Glenn Penny". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  14. ^ "Kindred by Choice | H. Glenn Penny". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
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