Brenda Gayle Plummer
Professor

eMail: bplummer@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-1845
Office: 5111 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 4011 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 - 12:00, Thursdays 11:00 - 12:00 (held in 4141 Helen C. White)

Education: PhD: Cornell University; MA: Columbia University; BA: Antioch College

Bio Sketch:

My specializations are Afro-American, 20th century U.S., race, and history of foreign relations.

My Research and Teaching Interests: Afro-American History; History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Current research: Afro-Americans and U.S. foreign affairs; race and gender in the Cold War era.

Selected Publications:

• Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996).
• Haiti and the United States (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
• Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988).
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 330 - African/Afro-American Historical Relationships: 1700 to the Present
• History 607 - The American Impact Abroad: The Historical Dimension
• History 628 - History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States - Syllabus 2011 (pdf)
• History 636 - Afro-American History Since 1900 - Syllabus 2012 (pdf)

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 221 - Explorations in American History
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Race and Gender in US Foreign Affairs"; "Du Bois For Today" Syllabus 2010 (pdf)

Graduate Courses:

• History 901 - Studies in American History
• History 902 - Research Seminar in American History
• History 968 - Research Strategies in African American History