Institute for Gender and Development Studies


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Senior Lecturer & IGDS Undergraduate Studies Coordinator

& Co-Executive​ Editor, CRGS

PhD (UCL), MPhil (UWI), BA (Univ. of Toronto)

Biography

Dr. Gabrielle Jamela Hosein has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, an M.Phil in Gender and Development Studies from The University of the West Indies, and a Ph.D in Anthropology from University College London. Her current research areas are Indo-Caribbean and post-indenture feminisms, masculinities, and adolescent sexualities. She is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies and has been involved in Caribbean feminist movement-building for thirty years. She received the national award, Medal for Development of Women (Gold), in 2022 and the CEDAW Committee of Trinidad and Tobago (CCoTT) Champions of Change Award in 2023. Her column, Diary of a Mothering Worker, is currently published by the Newsday and she has published writing in Pree, the Stabroek News, Global Voices and The Conversation.

“In academia, you produce and contribute to knowledge, raise consciousness and change how people see the world.”

 

Teaching

Currently teaching 

Undergraduate

  • GEND 1103 Introduction to Women’s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge
  • GEND 2013 Men and Masculinities in the Caribbean
  • GEND 2203 Feminist Theoretical Frameworks

Postgradaute

  • GEND 6100, 7100, 8101 Contemporary Feminist Theorizing
  • GEND 6103, 7102, 8102 Gender Analysis for Development Policy and Planning
Graduate students supervising

Ph.D: Satira Maharaj (co-supervisor)
Ph.D: Jiselle Alleyne-Clement
Ph.D: Rhonda Roopchand (co-supervisor)
Ph.D: Renuka Anandjit
Ph.D: Psyche Gonsalves – Advisory Committee member
Ph.D: Nadia Gower de Chabert – Advisory Committee member
Ph.D: Haniff Benjamin - Advisory Committee member
MPhil: Saajid Hosein 
MPhil: Shalinee Bahadur 
MSc: Alviann Thompson. Interdisciplinary Gender Studies – Supervisor.

Completed supervising

Ph.D UWI IGDS:

  • Merisa Thompson - On the Farm and Out at Sea: Gender and the Lived Relations of Power in Two Trinidadian Food Complexes
  • Catherine Ali - Navigating Empowerment in Mediation and Restorative Justice in Trinidad.

MPhil UWI IGDS: 

  • Amilcar Sanatan - Masculinities in the 21st Century Caribbean: Challenging Male Privilege with Profeminist Personal Stories and Pedagogies   

M.Sc UWI IGDS:

  • Masculinities: Marcus Kissoon, Veeraj Sonnyram, Nicholas Gilbert
  • Indo-Caribbean gender negotiations and feminist theorising: Natasha Mahabir, Asha Maharaj. Sarah Nabbie, Anusha Ragbir
  • Gender and leadership: Sabrina Mowlah Baksh, Lisa McDonald

M.Phil, Cultural Studies:

  • Nikolai Attai -Trans T & T: An Interrogation of Transgender Lives and Communities in Trinidad and Tobago.

Research

Areas of Specialization
  • Indo-Caribbean and Post-Indenture Feminisms
  • Caribbean Masculinities
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Adolescent Sexualities
  • Caribbean Feminist Movement-Building

 

Research projects

  • 2025 – present   Post-Indenture Feminisms - with Dr. Lisa Outar

  • 2025 – 2026    Indigenous Geographies and Caribbean Feminisms: Voices, Visions, and Struggles for Self-determination. Edited Collection (Forthcoming 2026), University Press of Mississippi - with Levi Gahman and  Psyche Gonsalves. 

  • 2023 – 2026   The Botanical Afterlife of Indenture: Imaginative Archives - with Abigail Hadeed, Risa Raghunanan, Frank Mitchum Weaver, Portia Subran, Lina Vincent, Nicola Cross, Richard Rampersad, Melanie Archer, and Vinay Harrichan

  • 2024 – 2026   Transforming Masculinities: Capacity Building for Men in GBV Prevention and Gender Justice. With Lead Investigator Liza Lorenzetti, University of Calgary. Funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. 

  • 2021 – 2023   Stories of Personal Transformation: Men Working for Violence Prevention and Gender Equity. With Lead Investigator Liza Lorenzetti, University of Calgary, and the University of Peshawar, the International Islamic University in Islamabad, and CariMAN. Funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council.

  • 2021-2022      Principal Investigator: IGDS project, Understanding The Manifestations, Drivers And Impacts Of Child Marriage And Early Unions In The Caribbean. Funded by UNICEF

 

Select papers

  • Centering Solidarities with Indigenous Struggles and Decolonising Caribbean Feminisms, Paper presented - IGDS 25th Anniversary Biennal Conference. (Barbados). November, 2018
  • Gender Negotiations, Feminist Navigations and the Silver Lining Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago, Paper presented - IGDS 25th Anniversary Biennal Conference. (Barbados). November, 2018
  • Boundary-crossing in Feminist Public Writing: Opportunities, Strategies and Risks, Paper presented - Caribbean Studies Association Conference (Cuba) on Panel: Public Intellectual Work: Challenges of Newspaper Columnists. June, 2018

 

Art Exhibitions

June 10 – 21, 2025 The Botanical Afterlife of Indenture: Imaginative Archives. Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago.
https://www.thebotanicalafterlifeofindenture.com/home

Selected Press: 

 

Outreach

Funded Outreach Projects
  • Outreach intervention for Male leaders and Faith Based Leaders/ Influencers as champions of gender equality with zero tolerance for family violence. (October 2020 - Dec 2021) UNFPA and UWI. 
     
  • Assessment and Alignment of the Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) Curricula and Teacher Training. (October 2020 – July 2021) UNFPA. 2021- 2023.

 

Select presentations

Post-Indenture Conversations
A series of conversations that trace the ideas, life and work of artists/writers/scholars who have been producing imaginative archives of indenture, and whose work also attends to intersections of gender, sexuality, family histories and feminisms in post-indenture sites and those to which descendants of indentured workers have migrated.

 

Other

Publications

Refereed Publications
  • 2025   Evans, Lucy, & Hosein, Gabrielle Jamela. Using spoken word and theatre in gender-based violence education with adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 1–18.
  • 2025   Kelsi Delaney & Gabrielle Jamela Hosein (2024) Spoken Word and Gender- based Violence Education among Adolescent Girls in Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean Quarterly, 70:3-4, 350-370, DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2024.2427937 
  • 2024   Hosein, Gabrielle. The Botanical Afterlife of Indenture: Mehndi as Imaginative Visual Archive. Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, Vol 4, Issue 1: 61-93.
  • 2024   Liza Lorenzetti, Aamir Jamal, Gabrielle Hosein, Sarah Thomas, Rita Dhungel, Jun Naraval, Ian Clark Parcon, Ahmad Waqar, Monica Sesma- Vazquez. Challenges and Opportunities: Exploring the Contexts of Men’s Gender Justice Roles in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy Special Issue, June 2024, 296-347 
  • 2023   Rodney, Ruth, Sireesha Bobbili, Gabrielle Hosein, and Emmanuelle Cummings. Intersections of Women   as Survivors: Disclosures of Violence and Global Research Standards in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. Social Sciences 12, no. 1: 31.
  • 2023   Lorenzetti, L., Jamal, A., Dhungel, R., Hosein, G., Thomas, S., & Halvorsen, J. Transforming masculinities through cross-cultural collaboration: Reflections on building a community of practice. Journal of Participatory Research Methods 4 (2): 
  • 2020   Hosein, Gabrielle. Post-Indentureship Caribbean Feminist Thought, Transoceanic Feminisms, and the Convergence of Asymmetries, in Scholar and Feminist Online, 16, 1.
  • 2019   Hosein, Gabrielle. What Caribbean Feminist Political Anthropology does with Blind Men and an Elephant, in Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2 (August). 
  • 2019    Hosein, Gabrielle. Masculinism, Male Marginalisation and Intimate Partner Backlash in Trinidad and Tobago. Caribbean Journal of Criminology, Vol. 1, No. 4 (April): 90–122 
Non Peer-Reviewed Publication
Edited Collections

  • 2016 Hosein, Gabrielle and Lisa Outar (eds.) Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theorizing and Enactments. (Palgrave Macmillian). 

  • 2016  Hosein, Gabrielle and Jane Parpart (eds.) Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistances and Transformational Possibilities in the Caribbean. (Rowland and Littlefield).  

  • 2012  Gabrielle Hosein and Lisa Outar. Indo-Caribbean Feminisms: Charting Crossings in Geography, Discourse, and Politics. Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Issue 6. 

Select reports
  • 2024 Research Brief: Child Marriage and Early Unions in the Caribbean. Sian Long, Viktoria Perschler and Cristiano Maneiro. Based on the study: Adolescent Unions in Six Caribbean Countries: Drivers, Manifestations and Consequences by Principal Investigator, Gabrielle Hosein (2022). https://www.unicef.org/lac/media/46136/file/Research-Brief-Child-Marriag...
  • 2018 Hosein, Gabrielle et. al. Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago. UN Women. 
  • 2019 Hosein, Gabrielle, Tricia Basdeo-Gobin and Lydia Rosa Gény.  Gender mainstreaming in national sustainable development planning in the Caribbean, UN ECLAC, 2019
Toolkits 
  • 2024 Gender-Based Violence Education for Youth: A Caribbean Arts-Based Facilitation Guide. The University of Leicester, the University of the West Indies, Tribe Sankofa, The Oral Tradition ROOTS Foundation TT. UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, July 2023. Authors of Stop Gender-Based Violence!!: Abbriel Nicholson, Karlia Jarrett, Karlene Murray, Diannjra Wilson, Danisha Smith, Avone Christie, Gavon Williams, Demario Malcolm, Rahiem Nelson, Ciara Perry, Rushawn Smith, Tissan Samuels, Javaughn Jarrett, Sanjay Brown, Shaurna Miller, Fabian M. Thomas. Authors of The Free Period: Mtima Solwazi, Josanne Sylvester, Isaiah John, Kirby Moses, Keisha Ramirez, Shineque Saunders, Gabrielle Hosein, Dylan Kerrigan, Kelsi Delaney. 
    https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/media/Gender-Based_Violence_Education_for_Youth_A_Caribbean_Arts-Based_Facilitation_Guide/24811800?file=45725766
  • 2020 Break the Silence – End Child Sexual Abuse: Bilingual Facilitators Toolkit for Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. Compiled by Greisy Carolina Gonzales Laguna, Nadine Lewis Agard, Omattie Madray, Tracie Rogers, Tisha Nickenig, Deborah McFee, Gabrielle Hosein, Rhoda Reddock. 

 

Media Commentary 

 

Selected Print (in addition to Diary of a Mothering Worker. Newsday column)

Press Quotes (Selected)

 

 

 

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