Barbara D. Savage

Barbara Dianne Savage (born 1953) is an American author, historian, and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches undergraduate and graduate and courses that focus on 20th century African American history, the history of American religious and social reform movements, the history of the relationship between media and politics and black women's political and intellectual history.

Works Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999) ed. Women and Religion in the African Diaspora with R. Marie Griffith (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion (Harvard University Press, 2008) Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar (Yale University Press, 2023)