Deborah M. Valenze (born 1953) is an American historian who is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor at Barnard College in New York.
She has written a number of books on topics that include early British women preachers and the global history of milk.
In 1985 she published Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England (Princeton University Press).
[5] Valenze is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University.
"[9] Her most recent book, The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History, was published by Yale University Press in 2023.