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Padraic Jeremiah Kenney (born March 29, 1963) is an American writer, historian, and educator.[1] He is a professorofhistory and International StudiesatIndiana University.[2] He currently serves as an Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences and Graduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University.[3] He served a two-year tenure as director of Collins Living-Learning Center from 2018-2020.[4] Previously, he was Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He graduated from Harvard College (BA), University of Toronto (MA), and the University of Michigan (PhD).

He is the author of several books on East European (particularly Polish) history and politics; his area of specialization is social change and political change in the contemporary world, in particular civil resistancetoauthoritarian regimes and democratic revolutions. His most recent book, Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World (Oxford, 2017), examines political prisoners and imprisoning regimes from the mid-19th century, in particular in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, and South Africa, as well as the men detained at Guantanamo Bay. His 2002 work, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989 (Princeton), has been translated into Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, and Czech. A history of post-communism, Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe Since 1989 (Zed Books), was translated into Croatian and Italian.

In 2016, he was president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).

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

He was awarded a grant under the Fulbright Program in 2005.[9]

Selected publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Padraic Jeremiah Kenney". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors (Collection). Gale. 2018. ISBN 9780787639952. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  • ^ "Faculty and Research: Padraic Kenney". Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  • ^ "Leadership & Administration".
  • ^ "History".
  • ^ "Padraic Kenney Archives". Kultura Liberalna.
  • ^ Kenney, Padraic (March 9, 2014). "Opinion | Why Poland Cares So Much About Ukraine". The New York Times.
  • ^ "The heroes of 1989 - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  • ^ "Padraic Kenney: Abu Ghraib Similar to Worst of Historical Precedents | History News Network". historynewsnetwork.org.
  • ^ "FY 2005 Grantees by World Area for the Faculty Research Abroad Program (Excel)". U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
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