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Brenda Gayle Plummer is the Merze Tate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a joint appointment in African American Studies. She specializes in African American history, U.S. foreign relations, and Caribbean history, particularly focusing on race, international affairs, and the African diaspora. Her current research explores race dynamics in commercial travel contexts.
Plummer holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Antioch College. She has taught at Fisk University, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Minnesota before joining UW-Madison.
Her research interests center on intersections of race, diplomacy, and transnational activism. Major themes include Afro-American engagement with global decolonization, U.S. foreign policy's racial dimensions, and Haitian-American diplomatic history.
Plummer has received prestigious awards including the Evjue Bascom Chair and Karen Johnson Teaching Award. Her work has been recognized with book prizes from the American Historical Association and Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.
She advises graduate students and teaches courses on African American history since 1900, race and nation, the civil rights movement, and comparative race-nationalism studies. Current office hours are TBA.
