Associates of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies

Fulbright Scholar Programme

There is at present one visiting scholar associated with the Centre through the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Programme:

Diana Fox is a visiting Fulbright Scholar whose fields of specialization include feminist anthropology, women's human rights, anthropology of development and activism and gender and HIV/AIDS. She is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts.

On April 20th 2005, Dr. Fox presented a Lunch-Time Seminar entitled, "Cultural DNA ? Gender at the Root of Everyday Life in Rural Jamaica".

While at the centre Dr. Fox will be teaching a postgraduate course on ethnographic methods called: Doing Ethnography: The Poetics and Politics of Qualitative Research from June 1 – 17, 2005.
She will also work on the Centre’s Women, Gender and Water project by conducting Ethnographic Research on the question of the value and meaning attributed to water in rural, urban and peri-urban communities.

Dr. Fox is the founder and editor of the on-line, open access Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS) at www.bridgew.edu/jiws/.

Associate Staff

Associate Staff come from the various faculties and departments of the University of the West Indies and are often members of the Women and Development Studies Group. They include:

• Prof. Bridget Brereton, Department of History
• Dr. Beverly-Anne Carter, Department of Liberal Arts
• Dr. David Dolly, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension
• Dr. Paula Morgan, Department of Liberal Arts
• Sr. Ethna Regan, The Regional Seminary
• Dr. Nicole Roberts, Department of Liberal Arts
• Dr. Grace Sirju-Charran, Department of Life Science
• Dr. Valerie Youssef, Department of Liberal Arts
• Dr. Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Department of Liberal Arts
• Dr. Sandra Reid, Department of Psychiatry

For more information link to research and publications on this website.