Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (October 22, 1941 – December 25, 2018) was an American professor of history and author.

[1][3] In 1951, her family moved to Queens, where she graduated from John Adams High School in 1959.

In 1963, she received a degree in history from Queens College, City University of New York.

[4] She also was a faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and Howard Community College.

[2] In 1977 she co-founded the Association of Black Women Historians and served as the organization's first national director.