B.A. (University of the West Indies, Mona)
M.Phil. (University of the West Indies, Mona)
M.A. (The Johns Hopkins University)
Ph. D. (The Johns Hopkins University)

Associate Professor
(Department of History, Arts)

“‘Married but not Parsoned’: Attitudes to Conjugality in Jamaica, 1865-1920,”[with Brian L. Moore]. Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean, Gad Heuman and David Trotman, eds. (London: Macmillan, 2005) 18pp.

Neither Led Nor Driven: Contesting British Cultural Imperial in Jamaica 1865-1920 [with Brian L. Moore] (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2004) 475pp.

Recent Papers/Presentations:
“Women’s Labours in the Caribbean,” Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working Class History in North America and Beyond, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 29 September-2 October 2005.

“‘…lewd negroes of the base sort…’: Negotiating ‘morality’ in Jamaica, 1865-1920,” The Fort Garry Lectures in History, University of Manitoba, 29 April, 2005.

“Blacks Voices in ‘the True North, Strong and Free’,” York University Black Students’ Association Conference, 6 March 2005

Courses taught recently:

Undergraduate:
African Canadian History
Life, Love and Labour: Introduction to Social History (team-taught)
History of the Caribbean: Colonisation to Independence

Graduate:
History of the United States (team-taught)

Cultural and Social History of the Caribbean
Cultural History of the United States