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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, University Professor Emerita, Morgan State University, completed her Ph.D in Afro-American History at Howard University, where she wrote the dissertation, “Afro-Americans in the Struggle for Woman Suffrage.”  A scholar in African American and African Diaspora Women's History, she has taught a generation of undergraduate and graduate students at MSU, where she lead in the development of the Ph D in History, which, in 1995, became the first Ph D granting program at Morgan State University.

Her research and writing include over forty articles and seven books.  Three of her books are, African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850 to 1920 , Women in Africa and the African Diaspora: A Reader , co-edited with Andrea Benton Rushing, and The Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939 , co-edited with Robert Harris.

The recipient of numerous awards for scholarship and service to the Historical profession, in recent years she has won the 1998 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize for the best book on Black Women's History. Terborg-Penn received the 2003 Towson University Distinguished Black Marylander Award.  She was awarded the 2008 Carter G. Woodson Scholar's Medallion from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.  In addition Terborg-Penn received the 2008 Morgan State University Outstanding Woman Award.

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