Brenda Gayle Plummer

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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]

Biography

Plummer was born in 1946.[3] She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Antioch College, a Master of Arts from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.[4]

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.

References

  1. ^ Plummer, Brenda Gayle (2014-01-01). "Race and Power around the World". The Journal of African American History. 99 (1–2): 123–126. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.99.1-2.0123. ISSN 1548-1867.
  2. ^ a b "Eight faculty named to WARF professorships". University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  3. ^ "Plummer, Brenda Gayle". Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  4. ^ a b "Plummer, Brenda Gayle". Department of History. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  5. ^ "UW profs praise peaceful landing". The Capital Times. 1994-09-20. p. 18. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  6. ^ "Brenda Gayle Plummer, 1999–2000". National Humanities Center. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  7. ^ "Friedland on Plummer, 'Rising Wind: Black Americans and Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960' | H-Diplo | H-Net". Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  8. ^ Vinson, Robert Trent. Book Review of Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974.
  9. ^ Vinson, Robert Trent (2014). "Review of In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956—1974". The American Historical Review. 119 (3): 828–830. ISSN 0002-8762.
  10. ^ Fisher, Christopher T. (2003). "Review of Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 101 (1/2): 203–205. ISSN 0023-0243.

External links

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