Halimah DeShong
Halimah DeShong is a Vincentian Commonwealth Scholar who received her PhD in 2010 from the University of Manchester with a thesis entitled Gendered Negotiations: Interrogating Discourses of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). She holds a BA (First Class Honours) from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus and was one of two valedictorians in 2004. As recipient of a Wellcome Trust Fellowship, she completed an MPhil in Social Policy in 2007 at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The UWI, Cave Hill, with a thesis which focused on masculinities and violence against women in Barbados. She was also awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Centre of Gender Excellence (GEXcel) at the University of Linköping, Sweden in 2010. At present, she is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Nita Barrow Unit (IGDS: NBU) at The UWI, Cave Hill Campus. Halimah has published in the areas of violence against women and gender and language. Her research interests include the sociology of gender and violence, gender and language, feminist epistemologies and methodologies, and Caribbean men and masculinity studies.
