Penelope Summerfield, FBA, FRHistS, FAcSS (born 1951), commonly known as Penny Summerfield, is an English historian and retired academic.
Early life and education Born in 1951 in London, Summerfield is the daughter of Arthur Summerfield, a professor, and Aline Whalley, a psychologist. She attended the University of Sussex, graduating with a BA in 1973, an MA in 1976 and a DPhil in 1982.Contemporary Authors, vol. 119 (Gale, 1986), p. 367. Her doctoral studies were supervised by Stephen Yeo.
Career and honours Summerfield was a research assistant and tutor at Durham University from 1976 to 1978. She then taught at the Lancaster University from 1978,"Prof. Penny Summerfield", University of Manchester. Retrieved 9 June 2021. first as a lecturer in the social history of education, and latterly as Professor of Women's History (1994–2000). She moved to the University of Manchester in 2000 to be Professor of Modern History; there, she served as head of the School of History and Classics (2002–2003) and the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (2003–2006).
In 2020, Summerfield was elected a fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences."Professor Penny Summerfield FBA", The British Academy. Retrieved 9 June 2021. She is also a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences"Professor Penny Summerfield FAcSS", Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 9 June 2021. and the Royal Historical Society,"Fellows – S" (Royal Historical Society). Retrieved 9 June 2021. and was the chair of the Social History Society from 2008 to 2011."Penny Summerfield", Social History Society. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
Personal life She was married to the management studies academic and Lancaster University professor Mark Easterby-Smith, with whom she had two children before they divorced;Who's Who in Finance and Industry 1998–1999 (Marquis, 1998), p. 214. their daughter is the historian Sarah Easterby-Smith.Sarah Easterby-Smith, Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. ix–xii. Summerfield later married Oliver Fulton, an emeritus professor of higher education at Lancaster University and the son of the university administrator John Fulton, Baron Fulton.Alison Field, "Fulton Bench Honours Uni's First VC", University of Sussex, 15 September 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2021.Fulton's university profile is at "Oliver Fulton", Department of Educational Research, University of Lancaster. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
She is the sister of British psychologist Quentin Summerfield.
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