Ellen Carol Dubois is a professor of history and gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1998 she won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association for her book Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (Yale University Press, 1997).
She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1968 and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1975. After teaching at the University at Buffalo for 16 years, she moved to Los Angeles to continue teaching at UCLA.