Alissa Trotz
Alissa Trotz is an Associate Professor
of Sociology and Equity Studies
(OISE) and Women and Gender Studies at the University
of Toronto. She is also Director of the undergraduate
Caribbean Studies Program in New College (www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/caribbean).
Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of
intersectionality and social inequalities, migratory circuits
and diasporic practices, gender, race and nationalism
in the Caribbean, feminism and transnationality. She is
associate editor of Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean
and its Diaspora. She is currently co-editing a special
issue of Race and Class with Aaron Kamugisha, to commemorate
the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British
slave trade, as well as a collection on the Transcultural
Caribbean with Holger Henke and Karl-Heinz Magister (Lexington
Books, Caribbean Series). Alissa also works with Red Thread
Women's Development Organization in Guyana (National Co-ordinator,
The Global Strike).
Selected publications:
Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identities in Guyana, London: Routledg. with Linda Peake. 1999
Rethinking Caribbean transnational connections: Conceptual itineraries, Global Networks, 6 (1) 2006
Between despair and hope: Towards an analysis of women and violence in contemporary Guyana, Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism 15:1-25. 2004
The Caribbean family?, in The Gender Companion, Audrey Kobayashi, Philomena Essed & David Theo Goldberg (eds.), London: Blackwell, pp. 370-380. 2004
Behind the banner of culture? Gender, race, and the family in Guyana, New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West Indische Gids 77 (1&2): 5-29. 2003
