Penny Sinanoglou

Penny Sinanoglou specializes in modern British and European imperial and international history. She is the author of Partitioning Palestine: British Policymaking at the End of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2019), which won the 2020 Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book award. She has also published articles and book chapters on 20h-century partitions, the history of the British Empire in the Middle East, and the role of cartography in imperial planning.

Sinanoglou is broadly interested in the intersections between British imperial power and international systems of oversight and governance; the role of ethnicity, religion, gender and nationality in imperial politics; and the changing legal status of imperial subject in the colonial and postcolonial eras. She is currently writing a legal history of polygamy in the 19th- and 20th-century British Empire.