Susan Pennybacker is a modern British and European specialist, who has taught at Trinity since 1983, and as a visitor at Wesleyan University, New York University, The City College of New York, and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). Her book,  From Scottsboro to Munich; race and political culture in 1930s Britain (Princeton University Press), appeared this summer, 2009. Her current research is on South African political exile, part of a larger project on postwar London in a transnational context. She is also co-editing a collection of annotated images and documents on the global Scottsboro campaign and its aftermath. Pennybacker directed Trinity's Hartford Studies Project in documentary history,  from 1990-2007. Susan is a past president of the Northeast Conference of British Studies and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern History. She was a Fellow of the Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, for the first term of 2008-09, and a visitor at WISER, the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg during the Spring and summer, 2009. She is director of African studies at Trinity for 2009-10 (in the Interntional Studies Program), and a faculty advisor to the Cape Town global site for study abroad. Susan teaches courses on Britain from 1688 to the present, modern Europe, and the history of British imperialism and its aftermath. She is interested in the methodological problems surrounding new global and "transnational" histories.