Dr. Sarah Gronningsater

Associate Professor

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Biography

Sarah Gronningsater is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on 18th and 19th-century U.S. history with specific interests in slavery, abolition, and the history of American democracy. Her scholarship examines the intersections of legal, political, constitutional, and social history. She is the author of 'Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and Making National Freedom,' published in July 2024 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her work has garnered numerous awards, including the 2025 James H. Broussard Book Award from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic and the 2025 William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History. Gronningsater has contributed to various academic publications and has received several fellowships, including those from the New-York Historical Society, and was a Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. She has a strong commitment to teaching, offering courses in early American history, the long nineteenth century, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, and legal and constitutional history, receiving accolades such as the Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Research Interests

Awards

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James H. Broussard Book Award

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William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize

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Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching

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Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
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