Brenda Gayle Plummer
Credentials: Professor
Email: bplummer@wisc.edu
Address:
4133 Helen C. White Hall
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University
M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1973
B.A., Antioch College, 1969
Short Biography
Brenda Gayle Plummer is a historian whose research includes race and gender, international relations, and civil rights. Her work ranges from essays on Haitian-American relations to studies of Afro-Americans, race, and foreign affairs. Plummer has taught Afro-American history throughout her twenty years experience in higher education. Plummer has taught at historically black Fisk University, the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin.
Plummer’s publications include articles and reviews that have appeared in such journals as Phylon, International History Review, TransAfrica Forum, Latin American Research Review, and Diplomatic History, American Historical Review, and the Journal of American History. She has contributed to a number of collections and reference works. Plummer is also the author of three books of original scholarship and the recipient of book prizes in Afro-American history and diplomatic history respectively from the American Historical Association, and the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.
Interests
Civil rights and modern Afro-American history
Race and international affairs
African diaspora history