Brenda Gayle Plummer
Position title: Professor of History
Email: bplummer@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.263.1845
Address:
Office: 5111 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 4011 Mosse Humanities
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Office Hours: On Leave
Joint Appointment: Afro-American Studies
Biography
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.
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Antioch College
Books
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Brenda Gayle Plummer. In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956–1974. Cambridge University Press, 2012. -
Brenda Gayle Plummer (Editor). Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988. University of North Carolina Press, 2003. -
Brenda Gayle Plummer. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. -
Brenda Gayle Plummer. Haiti and the United States: The Psychological Moment. University of Georgia Press, 1992. -
Brenda Gayle Plummer. Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915. Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Advisor To
History Courses
- History 221 – Explorations in American History
- History 227 – History of Race and Ethnicity in the United States – Syllabus 2015 (pdf)
- History 321 – African American History Since 1900 – Syllabus 2021 (pdf)
- History 330 – African/Afro-American Historical Relationships: 1700 to the Present
- History 600 – Race and Nation in American History – Syllabus 2022 (pdf)
- History 600 – Race and Gender in US Foreign Affairs
- History 600 – Du Bois For Today – Syllabus 2020 (pdf)
- History 607 – The American Impact Abroad: The Historical Dimension – Syllabus 2016 (pdf)
- History 628 – History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States – Syllabus 2021 (pdf)
- History 636 – Afro-American History Since 1900 – Syllabus 2012 (pdf)
- History 901 – Studies in American History
- History 902 – Research Seminar in American History
- History 943 – Race and Nationalisms: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives – Syllabus 2021 (pdf)
- History 968 – Research Strategies in African American History