Penny Von Eschen, Cornell University

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Professor Ithaca, New York pmv45@cornell.edu Office: (607) 255-4517

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African American anticolonial intellectuals African diaspora and transnational movements Black Americans and Anticolonialism Cold War Nostalgia U.S. foreign relations history United States history US State Department sponsored jazz tours

Bio/Research

My scholarship is engaged with the history of the United States in global and transnational dimensions and has sought to broaden the archive for historians of U.S. foreign relations. It has focused on the projects and subjectivities of critics, activists, and artists as well as including official...

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Bio/Research

My scholarship is engaged with the history of the United States in global and transnational dimensions and has sought to broaden the archive for historians of U.S. foreign relations. It has focused on the projects and subjectivities of critics, activists, and artists as well as including official multi-national state archives (and their internal debates) and the role of literature, popular culture, and mass media representations as a broader public and cultural arena for the making of foreign policy.

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