Padraic Kenney

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Padraic Jeremiah Kenney (born March 29, 1963) is an American writer, historian, and educator.

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

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

  • Dance in Chains: Political Imprisonment in the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2017,
  • The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe Since 1989, Zed Books, 2006,
  • Partisan Histories: The Past in Contemporary
  • A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, Princeton University Press, 2002,
  • Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950, Cornell University Press, 1996,

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