Brenda Gayle Plummer
{{Short description|American academic and historian}}
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.{{Cite journal |last=Plummer |first=Brenda Gayle |date=2014-01-01 |title=Race and Power around the World |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.1-2.0123 |journal=The Journal of African American History |language=en |volume=99 |issue=1–2 |pages=123–126 |doi=10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.1-2.0123 |issn=1548-1867|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |title=Eight faculty named to WARF professorships |url=https://news.wisc.edu/eight-faculty-named-to-warf-professorships/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=University of Wisconsin-Madison|date=21 August 2012 }}
Biography
Plummer was born in 1946.{{Cite web |title=Plummer, Brenda Gayle |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/plummer-brenda-gayle |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Encyclopedia}} She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Antioch College, a Master of Arts from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.{{Cite web |date=2017-05-16 |title=Plummer, Brenda Gayle |url=https://history.wisc.edu/people/plummer-brenda-gayle/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Department of History |language=en-US}}
She has written and contributed to several books about the history of Haiti and African-American history in the United States.{{Cite news |date=1994-09-20 |title=UW profs praise peaceful landing |pages=18 |work=The Capital Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-uw-profs-praise-peacef/126036353/ |access-date=2023-06-08}}
She was a 1999–2000 fellow of the National Humanities Center.{{Cite web |title=Brenda Gayle Plummer, 1999–2000 |url=https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellow/brenda-gayle-plummer-1999-2000/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=National Humanities Center |language=en-US}} She was named the Merze Tate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.
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.{{Cite web |title=Friedland on Plummer, 'Rising Wind: Black Americans and Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960' {{!}} H-Diplo {{!}} H-Net |url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/30073/friedland-plummer-rising-wind-black-americans-and-foreign-affairs-1935 |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Humanities and Social Sciences Online}}
- In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974. Cambridge University Press, 2012.{{Cite book |last=Vinson |first=Robert Trent |url=https://www.academia.edu/29057580 |title=Book Review of Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974}}{{Cite journal |last=Vinson |first=Robert Trent |date=2014 |title=Review of In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956—1974 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23784786 |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=119 |issue=3 |pages=828–830 |doi=10.1093/ahr/119.3.828 |jstor=23784786 |issn=0002-8762}}
= 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.{{Cite journal |last=Fisher |first=Christopher T. |date=2003 |title=Review of Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23384564 |journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society |volume=101 |issue=1/2 |pages=203–205 |jstor=23384564 |issn=0023-0243}}
Further reading
- American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary. United States: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
References
External links
- [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/383430.Brenda_Gayle_Plummer Brenda Gayle Plummer] on Goodreads
- [https://www.flowstatefilms.com/flowstate-stories/meet-the-advisor-dr-brenda-gayle-plummer-author-of-rising-wind Interview]
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