STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE OFGENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
ADMINISTRATIVE AND RESEARCH STAFF

 

HEAD (Ag.)

Joan C. Cuffie, Temporay Lecturer in Psychology, and (Ag.) Head
Tel. (246) 417-4490/1; Fax: (246) 424-3822; E-mail: gender@cavehill.uwi.edu
Ms Cuffie holds a Bachelor degree of Arts with Education and a Masters of Arts in Education, both from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. She is completing a Ph.D in Educational Psychology.

Research interests include: Psychological Safety and Adolescent Development.

PUBLICATIONS

Cuffie, J.C. (2006). Eugenia Charles and the Psychology of Leadership. In E. Barriteau & A. Cobley (Eds.), Enjoying Power: EugeniaCharles and Political Leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.

Barrow-Giles, C. & Cuffie, J.C. (2002). Gender, Education & Political Volitions of Barbadians: Perceptions towards Regional Integration: The Case of Barbados-OECS Initiative. Journal of Caribbean History, 36, 2.

Richardson, A.G. & Cuffie, J.C. (1999). Subject Choice, Sex-Role Orientation and Learning Style: A Study of Sixth-Form Students in Trinidad and Tobago. In A. Richardson (Ed.), Caribbean Adolescents and Youth: Contemporary Issues in Personality Development and Behaviour. New York: Caribbean Diaspora Press, Inc.

Richardson, A.G. & Cuffie, J.C. (1997). University Students’ Approaches to Studying: Some Caribbean Findings. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 1, 68-75.

 

VIOLET EUDINE BARRITEAU (HEAD OF IGDS FROM 1993-2008)

CURRENT                Deputy Principal

POSITIONS                       Chair: Campus Lecture Series

Chair: Staff Development Committee

Chair: Student Services Advisory Committee

Chair: Learning Resource Centre Advisory Committee

Chair: Campus Matriculations Committee

Chair: Medical and Health Services Committee

Chair: Campus Committee for Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence

Chair: Campus Committee on Sexual Harassment

Chair: Sabbatical Leave Committee

Chair: Co-Curricular Sub-Committee for Academic Board

Coordinator: MPhil/PhD Programme, Institute of Gender and    Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit

EDUCATION

Howard University, Washington DC, USA

PhD. Political Science, Specialisation, Political Economy, Political Theory

Dissertation: Gender and Development in the Post Colonial Caribbean: Female Entrepreneurs and the Barbadian State”. 1994. 

                                                                 

REFEREED SCHOLARLY OUTPUT

BOOKS

Single-Authored

  • The Political Economy of Gender in the Twentieth Century Caribbean. Eudine Barriteau. Palgrave International: London and New York, 2001.

Edited Collections

  • Enjoying Power: Eugenia Charles and Political Leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Eudine Barriteau and Alan Cobley Editors. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, November 2006.
  • Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean. Eudine Barriteau. Ed. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, October 2003.
  • Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow Social Change and International Development. Eudine Barriteau and Alan Cobley. Eds. Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2001.
  • Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development. Jane L. Parpart, M. Patricia Connelly and V. Eudine Barriteau.Eds. Ottawa: International Development Research Council, 2000.

 

LECTURER

Charmaine Crawford PH.D York University in toronto, Canada.

Research interests include: gender, labour and globalization; Caribbean foreign domestics; Caribbean women and transnational motherhood, diasporic Identities; and black and anti-racist feminist theorizing.

PUBLICATIONS

Crawford, C. (2007). “Black Women, Racing and Gendering the Canadian Nation.” In Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought, Notisha Massaquoi and Kjoki Nathani Wane (eds.), 119-128. Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.

Crawford, C. (2005). “When the Body Attacks: A Black Women’s Fight Against Lupus.” In Sophie Harding (ed.) In the Hour of Darkness Surviving: The Health and Wellness of Women of Color and Indigenous Women, 265-271. Alberta: University of Calgary Press.

Khanlou, N and Crawford, C (2005).” Post-migratory Experiences of Newcomer Female Youth: Self-Esteem and Identity Development.” Journal of Immigrant Health. Vol 7, September 2005.

Crawford, C. (2004). African-Caribbean Women, Diaspora and Transnationality.” Canadian Woman Studies Journal Vol. 23 No. 2, Winter 2004, 97-103.

Crawford, C. (2003). “Sending Love in a Barrel: The Making of Transnational Caribbean Families in Canada.” Canadian Woman Studies Journal. Vol. 22, No. 3-4, Spring/Summer 2003, 104-109.

Flynn, K. and Crawford, C. (1998). “Race Treason: Mandatory Arrest and the Caribbean Community.” In Unsettling Truths: Battered Women, Policy, Politics and Contemporary Research in Canada, K. Bonnycastle and G. Rigakos (eds.), 93-111. Vancouver: Collective Press.

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

Crawford, C. (1996). (in progress). "Negotiating Motherhood: Transnational Migration and African Caribbean Women in Canada. " Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, York University. Crawford, C. (1996). “The Intensification of Violence Against Women in Trinidad and Tobago During the Period o Structural Adjustment Period.” Masters MRP, Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies, York University, June 1996.

REPORTS

Crawford, C. (2002). “Challenging Anti-Black Racism in Canada.” Prepared for the African Canadian Coalition Against Racism (ACCAR). Funded by Heritage Canada, Government of Canada.

TEMPORARY LECTURER

Halimah DeShong is completing her doctoral studies within the sociology of gender at the University of Manchester September 2006.  Her thesis examines discourses of gender and intimate partner violence.  She holds a BA (first class honours) in History with Literatures in English from the UWI, Cave Hill Campus, and an MPhil in Social Policy from the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), UWI, Cave Hill Campus.

RESEARCH INTEREST INCLUDE

feminist theory (with emphasis on feminist poststructuralism), the sociology of gender and interpersonal violence (particularly intimate partner violence), gender and public policy, gender and popular culture, and feminist research methods.  

ACADEMIC AWARDS

2006-2009

Commonwealth Scholarship                                                       

tenable at the University of

Manchester for PhD research

2004-2006

Wellcome Trust Fellowship                                                            

tenable at the University of the

West Indies, Cave Hill Campus,

for MPhil research

2004

Valedictorian                                                                                   

Graduation Ceremony

UWI, Cave Hill Campus

2001-2004

Stabex

Scholarship                                                                           

awarded by the Government of

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

for national service in the sport

of netball 

Halimah was also awarded various Department and Faculty prizes from the Faculty of Humanities and Education between 2001 and 2005.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS

“Negotiating Gender in Violent Heterosexual Relationships: Discursive Strategies in Vincentian Men’s and Women’s Accounts of Violence,” European Criminological Society Conference, University of Edinburgh, September 2008.

“The Relationship between Theory and Method in Social Research,” PhD Socio-Legal/Criminology Seminar Series, University of Manchester, November 2007.

“Gendering Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Implications for Caribbean Research,” Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) Conference, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, March 2007.

“Understanding Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Masculinity in Male Partner Violence,” SALISES Conference, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, March 2006.

“Men and Intimate Partner Violence in Barbados,” Seminar Paper presented at SALISES, May 2005.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Editorial Assistant Working Paper Series: Carmen Hutchinson Miller, Ph.D. candidate University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. B.A. Theology Universidad Nazarena de las Americas. M.A. Education Universidad Latina de Costa Rica. M.A. History, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.

Research interest: Afro-Caribbean Migration, Afro-Costa Rican History.

PUBLICATIONS

Overview of the Nita Barrow Collection.  Caribbean Review of Gender Studies: A Journal of Caribbean Perspectives on Gender and Feminism.  Issue 2-2008: 1-8.

"Stereotyping Women's Political Leadership: Images of Eugenia Charles in the Caribbean's Print Media." In Enjoying Power: Eugenia Charles and Political Leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Ed. Eudine Barriteau and Alan Cobley. Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies Press, 2006: 239-258.

In Memory of my Ancestors: Contribution of Afro-Jamaican Women in the Cultural and Economic Development of Port Limón, Costa Rica. In Regional Footprints: The Travels and Travails of Early Caribbean Migrants. Eds. Annette Insanally, Mark Clifford and Sean Sheriff. Jamaica: Latin American-Caribbean Centre (LACC) UWI in association with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), UWI, 2006: 266-291.

Safe Haven: Port Limon and Afro-West Indian Descendants. In Cave Hill Currents: The Guild of Students' Academic Journal Vol. 1, No. 1 Sept. 2006: 21-28.

In Memory of my Ancestors: Contributions of Afro-Jamaican Female Migrants in Costa Rica 1872-1890. Barbados: Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Cave Hill Campus. Working Paper No. 8 October, 2002.

 

STENOGRAPHER/CLERK

Ms Olivia Birch has been a staff of the Institute for ten years performing a variety of duties.

Mrs Olivia Birch is presenty pursuing a undergraduate degree at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.

OFFICE ASSISTANT

Ms Hazel Blackman has been a staff at the University of the West Indies since 1969, working at the Staff Common Room (SCR). In 2004 Ms Hazel Blackman was transfered to the Institute of Gender and Development Studies; Nita Barrow Unit as an Office Assistant.