Iris Berger, née Brown (born 12 October 1941), is an American historian of Africa.
Iris Brown Berger was born on 12 October 1941 in Chicago, Illinois.
She attended Evanston Township High School and then received a B.A.
When she returned to the United States she was appointed as an assistant professor at Wellesley College.
Berger was elected president of the African Studies Association for 1995–96 and has published three books on African social, gender and class history as of 1996.