Barbara Ransby (born May 12, 1957) is an American writer, historian, professor, and activist.
[2][3] She is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians,[4][5] and holds the John D. MacArthur Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago.
[8][4][9] Ransby was elected president of the National Women's Studies Association for a two-year term, which began in November 2016.
[12] Ransby's academic work has featured biographies of 20th-century black women activists Ella Baker and Eslanda Robeson.
[13][14] In 1995, Ransby, together with other black feminists including Angela Davis, Evelynn Hammonds and Kimberlé Crenshaw, formed an alliance called the African American Agenda 2000 to oppose Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, out of concern that it would further black male sexism.