Brenda Gayle Plummer (born 1946) is an American academic and historian whose areas of research are the history of Haiti and African-American history. She is the Merze Tate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1][2]
She has written and contributed to several books about the history of Haiti and African-American history in the United States.[4][5]
She was a 1999–2000 fellow of the National Humanities Center.[6] She was named the Merze Tate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.[2]
Selected works
As author
Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915. Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Rising Wind: Black Americans and Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.[7]
In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974. Cambridge University Press, 2012.[8][9]
As contributor
"Making 'Brown Babies": Race and Gender after World War II'. Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick. Duke University Press, 2014.
As editor
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. University of North Carolina Press, 2003.[10]
Further reading
American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. United States: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
