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.
[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][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.