Patricia Mohammed
Patricia Mohammed is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at The UWI, St. Augustine Campus. She was granted a Commonwealth Secretariat Fellowship to work at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (1984). There she worked with Professor Kate Young as Co-Director of an international women and development studies course. She went on to achieve her PhD at the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands (1998), (funded by the Netherlands Government through the Women and Development Studies Group (WDSG), The UWI). This allowed the time to develop theoretical strengths and incorporate the discipline of history into her research portfolio. She was recognised as Caribbean Advocate by the Third World Association of Students at Brown University, Rhode Island (2001), signalling that her work reached out to the youthful diasporic Caribbean population; and by her peers at The UWI with the title of full Professor in 2005. She held a visiting professorship at the State University of New York at Albany (2007). This was valuable for teaching and seeing the Caribbean from a US-based perspective , leading to new research insights into the study of Caribbean iconography in art, photography and increasingly film. She incorporates a visual lens onto an existing textually based one in examining the subject of culture and identity.
