Academic CV

Abridged CV (2022)

EDUCATION

Ph.D.: Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 2015

University of the West Indies – St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Master of Arts: Political Science

Brooklyn College, City University of New York – Brooklyn, New York, US

Bachelor of Arts: Political Science, (English minor)

Brooklyn College, City University of New York – Brooklyn, New York, US

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Africana/African American Studies
  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Caribbean History
  • Diaspora Studies (Afro-Diasporic experiences in the US, Caribbean and Latin America)
  • Migration/Mobility Studies
  • Critical Mixed-Race Studies
  • Comparative politics including Latin American and Caribbean politics
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

BROOKLYN COLLEGE, THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY), DEPARTMENT OF AFRICANA STUDIES, AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES PROGRAM, Brooklyn, New York, US

 Assistant Professor, 08/2022 – Present

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 01/2016 to 07/2022

Adjunct Lecturer, 08/2015 to 12/2016

BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY) DEPARTMENT OF ETHNIC AND RACE STUDIES, New York City, New York, US

Adjunct Assistant Professor, 01/2016 to 05/2022

Adjunct Lecturer, 08/2015 to 01/2016


CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA

Panelist. “Dougla as Maneuvering Subject:  Interpreting Self in the Caribbean Diaspora.” Indo-Caribbean Cultural Center (ICC) and Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and its Legacies (AGI). Mixed-Race Douglas in the Indian Diaspora: Creolisation, Indianisation or Both? December 11, 2022.

Speaker. “Maneuvering Mixedness: Interpreting Dougla in the Caribbean Diaspora.” Asian and Asian American Research Institute (AAARI), Asian American/Asian Studies Across CUNY Brown Bag. November 18, 2022.

Speaker. “But You’re Not Black.” Virtual Film Screening and Discussion. Brooklyn College Caribbean Studies Program and American Studies Program. November 15, 2022.

“Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix.” Borough of Manhattan Community College, Asian American Research Institute (AARI) CUNY, BMCC/Hunter AANAPISI Bridge Initiative (ABI). Presentation with Dr. Sue Ann Barratt (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine). November 12, 2021

“Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix.” Institute for Gender & Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit (IGDS:NBU) Seminar Series. Presentation with Dr. Sue Ann Barratt (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine). April 9, 2021.

Panelist. “From Eugenia to Kamala- Now What? – The Impact of Caribbean Women in Government; Past, Present and Future.” Women’s History Month Panel. Island SPACE Caribbean Museum. March 21, 2021.

“Reflecting on a Revolution – Gender and Power in Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.” Panel – Revisiting the Scholarship of Eudine Barriteau: deconstruction of Gendered Power Relations in the Post-Colonial Caribbean State. IGDS Biennial Conference. Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. November 21, 2018.

“Mapping Indo-Caribbean and Dougla in Asian American Studies and New York City.” Center for Ethnic Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). Symposium: Building Asian American Studies in Polycultural New York. March 10, 2017. Presentation with Dr. Anita Baksh (LaGuardia Community College).

“I’m an authentic Dougla”: Dougla Constructions of Subjectivity and Experience through Talk,” Caribbean Studies Association. 41st Annual Conference, June 5-12, 2016. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “Caribbean Global Movements: People, Ideas, Culture, Arts and Economic Sustainability.” Paper presentation with Dr. Sue Ann Barratt (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine).

“Un-Silencing Race: Claiming Blackness in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Caribbean Studies Association. 41st Annual Conference, June 5-12, 2016. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “Caribbean Global Movements: People, Ideas, Culture, Arts and Economic Sustainability.”

“Am I Mixed Enough? The Politics of ‘Dougla’ in Trinidad and Tobago.” Caribbean Studies Association. 40th Annual Conference. May 26-30, 2015. New Orleans, Louisiana, US. “The Caribbean in an Age of Global Apartheid. Fences, Boundaries and Borders – Literal and Imagined.” Paper/Film presentation with Dr. Sue Ann Barratt (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine),

“Re-creating States-The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under Chávez.” Caribbean Studies Association. 39th Annual Conference. May 26-30, 2014. Mérida, Mexico. “Mixing without Combining”?: Re/thinking Pluralist “Environments” in the Caribbean and its Diasporas.”

“Bolivarian Woman, Bolivarian Nation.” Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad & Tobago. 20th Anniversary Conference on Gender Transformations in the Caribbean. November 6-8, 2013.

“Women’s Political Participation and Twenty-First Century Socialism in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.” 2nd Global Conference, Femininities and Masculinities. May 3-5, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic. Interdisciplinary.Net.

“The Feminist Movement in the Post-Colonial, Anglophone Caribbean- A Look at Trinidad and Tobago.” CUNY Pipeline Conference, City University of New York Graduate Center, NY. February. 2004.