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]
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]