Researching Padraic Kenney
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Records of Padraic Kenney on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Padraic Kenney and the Kenney Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Padraic Kenney
Padraic Kenney
Padraic Jeremiah Kenney (born 1963) is a professor of history and International Studies at Indiana University. 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. He served a two-year tenure as director of Collins Living-Learning Center from 2018-2020. Previously, he was Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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 resistance to authoritarian 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. Other essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Denver Post.
He was awarded a grant under the Fulbright Program in 2005.
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