Martha C. Howell is an American historian.
She is Miriam Champion Emerita Professor of History at Columbia University.
[1] Her specialization is the socioeconomic and women's history in Northern Europe during the late Medieval and Early modern centuries, focusing on the Netherlands, northern France, and Germany.
[2] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 in the field of Medieval history.
[3] She received an honorary doctorate from Ghent University and was elected a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.