Curriculum Vitae

CECILIA ANNE GREEN 328 ARNOLD AVENUE, SYRACUSE, NY 13210. 315-299-5499 [email protected]

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, 1998 University of Toronto

M.A., Sociology in Education, 1980 University of Toronto

B.A., General Studies, 1973 University of the West Indies

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Associate Professor, Syracuse University, Sociology, 2008-Present

Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Sociology, 2000-2008

Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, Ethnic Studies, 1998-2000

Lecturer, University of Michigan, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, 1997-98

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Residential College (Social Science Program) and the Women’s Studies Program, 1995-97

 Visiting Assistant Professor and Director, Study Abroad to Jamaica Program (six weeks), Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, Spring 1995

King-Chavez-Parks Visiting Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Department of Africana Studies and the Women’s Studies Program, 1994-95

 Visiting Assistant Professor and Director, Study Abroad to Jamaica Program (six weeks), Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, Summer 1994

Lecturer (tenure-track), Eastern Michigan University, Department of African American Studies, 1993-94

Adjunct Lecturer, University of Michigan, Residential College, Social Science Program, 1989-92 (three-quarter [75%] position, supplemented by courses taught in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and the Women’s Studies Program)

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CURRENT & RECENT PROJECTS:

 Disciplining ‘Bajans’: Gender, Labor and the Penal System in Barbados, 1870-1930  Caribbean Intersectionalities: Race, Class, and Gender in Anglophone Caribbean History  The New Chinese Presence in the (Eastern) Caribbean  Member, Labor Studies Working Group, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), Syracuse University

COURSES TAUGHT:

Syracuse University: SOC 102 Social Problems SOC/WGS 248 Ethnic Inequality and Intergroup Relations SOC 300 Gender, Race, and Class in the Caribbean SOC 406 Sociological Theory SOC/WGS 433 Race, Class, and Gender SOC 880 Globalization and Postcolonialism

PUBLICATIONS:

Peer-reviewed Articles and Yan Liu (co-author), “A ‘Transnational Middleman Minority’ in the Eastern Caribbean? Constructing a Historical and Contemporary Framework of Analysis.” Social and Economic Studies, 66:3-4 (2017), 1-31.

“A Historical and Comparative Survey of the Chinese Presence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, with a focus on the Anglophone Caribbean.” Journal of Chinese Overseas, 13:2 (2017), 205-242.

“The 1938-39 Moyne Commission in Barbados: Investigating the Status of Children.” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, 11:4 (2014), 515-535.

“Outbound China and the Global South: New Entrepreneurial Immigrants in the Eastern Caribbean.” IDEAZ journal, Special Issue: From Unipolar to Multipolar: The Remaking of Global Hegemony, Vols. 10-12 (2012-2014), 24-44.

“‘To the Scandal of the Public’: Sexual Misconduct and Clashing Patriarchies in 1930s Dominica, British West Indies.” Journal of Caribbean History, 47:1 (2013), 73-109.

“Local Geographies of Crime and Punishment in a Plantation Colony: Gender and Incarceration in Barbados, 1878-1928.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 86:3 & 4 (2012), 263-290.

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“‘The Abandoned Lower Class of Females’: Class, Gender and Penal Discipline in Barbados, 1875-1929.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 53:1 (January 2011), 144-179.

“Disciplining Boys: Labor, Gender, Generation and the Penal System in Barbados, 1880-1930.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 3:3 (Fall 2010), 366-390.

“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Mercantilism and Free Trade.” Race & Class, 49:2 (October 2007), 41-56.

“‘A Civil Inconvenience’? The Vexed Question of Slave Marriage in the British West Indies.” Law and History Review, 25:1 (Spring 2007), 1-59.

“Between Respectability and Self-Respect: Framing Afro-Caribbean Women’s Labor History,” Social and Economic Studies, 55:3 (September 2006), 1-31.

“Hierarchies of Whiteness in the Geographies of Empire: Thomas Thistlewood and the Barretts of Jamaica.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 80:1 & 2 (2006), 5-43.

“A Recalcitrant Plantation Colony: Dominica, 1880-1946.” New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 73:3 & 4 (1999), 43-71.

“The Asian Connection: The U.S.-Caribbean Apparel Circuit and the Evolution of a New Model of Industrial Relations.” Latin American Research Review, 33:3 (Fall 1998), 7-47.

“Gender, Race and Class in the Social Economy of the English-Speaking Caribbean.” Social and Economic Studies, 44:2 & 3 (June/September 1995), 65-102.

“Export-processing Industry and the New Peripheralization of the Commonwealth Caribbean.” 21st Century Policy Review, 2:4 (Spring/Summer 1995), 51-91.

“Advanced Capitalist Hegemony and the Significance of Gramsci’s Insights: A Restatement.” Social and Economic Studies, 42:2 & 3 (June/September 1993), 175-207.

Book Chapters

“The 1938-39 Moyne Commission in Barbados: Investigating the Status of Children.” In Atlantic Childhoods in Global Contexts, ed. by Audra A. Diptee and David V. Trotman (Routledge, 2016). Reprint.

“The New Chinese Presence in the Caribbean: Towards a Global Understanding.” In Beyond Free Trade: Alternative Approaches to Trade, Politics, and Power, ed. by Kate Ervine and Gavin Fridell (Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2015), 97-115.

“Unspeakable Worlds and Muffled Voices: Thomas Thistlewood as Agent and Medium of Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Society.” In Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The

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Thought of Stuart Hall, ed. by Brian Meeks (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle; London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2007), 151-184.

“Caribbean Dependency Theory of the 1970s Revisited: A Historical-Materialist-Feminist Revision.” In New Caribbean Thought: A Reader, ed. by Brian Meeks and Folke Lindahl (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2001), 40-72.

“At the Junction of the Global and the Local: Transnational Industry and Women Workers in the Caribbean.” In Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade, ed. by Lance Compa and Stephen Diamond (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 118-140.

“Historical and Contemporary Restructuring and Women in Production in the Caribbean.” In The Caribbean in the Global Political Economy, ed. by Hilbourne A. Watson (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994), 149-171.

“Towards a ‘Weapon of Theory’ for Black and Working Class Women’s Liberation -- Angela Davis’ Women, Race, and Class.” In The Issue Is 'Ism: Women of Colour Speak Out, ed. by Nila Gupta and Makeda Silvera (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1989), 33-45. Reprint. Also re-printed as “Thinking through Angela Davis’ Women, Race, and Class.” In Returning the Gaze, ed. by Himani Bannerji (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1993).

“Marxist-Feminism and Third World Liberation,” in Fireworks: The Best of Fireweed, ed. by Makeda Silvera (Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1986). Reprint

Books & Monographs

The World Market Factory: A Study of Enclave Industrialization in the Eastern Caribbean and its Impact on Women Workers (St. Vincent & the Grenadines: CARIPEDA, 1990). Monograph based on NGO research report.

Articles in Non-refereed Journals

“Marx’s Presence in my Intellectual World: Historical Subjects Lost & Found.” Against The Current, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Sept./Oct. 2018): 14-16.

“Historical Roots of Modern Caribbean Politics: Rebellion in the 1930s.” Against The Current, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Sept./Oct. 1997): 34-38.

“Gender and Re/production in British West Indian Slave Societies.” Against The Current, Vol. VII, (Part 1) No. 4 (Sept./Oct. 1992): 31-38; (Part 2) No. 5 (Nov./Dec. 1992): 26-31; (Part 3) No. 6 (Jan./Feb. 1993): 29-36.

“Marxist-Feminism and Third World Liberation.” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, Issue 20 (Spring 1985), 55-68.

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“Towards a ‘Weapon of Theory’ for Black and Working Class Women’s Liberation -- Angela Davis’ Women, Race, and Class.” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, Issue 16 (Spring 1983), 21-31.

Book Reviews

Review of Global Environmental Governance and Small States: Architectures and agency in the Caribbean by Michelle Scobie (Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2019). Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-019-00567-8

Review of Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men, by Héctor Carrillo (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017). American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 125, No. 2 (September 2019).

Review of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age, by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2018). Gender and Society, Vol. 33, No. 3 (June 2019), 494-496.

Review of Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom, by Mimi Sheller (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2012). Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 3 (May 2015), 418-420.

Review of The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation, by Melanie J. Newton (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008). Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 60, Nos. 3 & 4 (Sept/Dec 2011), 215-221.

Review of The Black Woman Cross-Culturally, ed. by Filomina Chioma Steady, in Resources for Feminist Research, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Nov. 1982), 326-328.

“Reflections on The State and Revolution in Eastern Africa -- John S. Saul.” Two-Thirds: A Journal of Underdevelopment Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1979/80), 36-40.

Review of World Accumulation, 1492-1789, by Andre Gunder Frank, in Two-Thirds: A Journal of Underdevelopment Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Winter 1978/79), 48-49.

“Thomas’ Dependence and Transformation -- A Review.” Two-Thirds: A Journal of Underdevelopment Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1978), 71-74.

Research Bulletins

“Trade Unions and Women Workers in the Eastern Caribbean.” Voices of the African Diaspora (CAAS Research Review), 7:2 (Spring 1991), 30-34. (Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan)

Reference Book & Encyclopedia Entries

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“Dominica.” In Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities, ed. by C. Neal Tate, 4 vols. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005), II, 1-3.

Published Working Papers

Toward a Political Economy of Adult Education in the Third World (co-authored with Glen C. Filson). Political Economy of Adult Education Working Papers, International Council for Adult Education (ICAE), Toronto, 1980. [Working Paper, 82 pp. typescript]

Research Report

“The New Enclave Industries and Women Workers in the Eastern Caribbean.” Research Report, Caribbean Women Workers in Industry Project, Phase 1, 1988. Joint Project of Caribbean People’s Development Agency (St. Vincent) and The Centre for Caribbean Dialogue (Toronto), co-sponsored and funded by CUSO (formerly Canadian University Service Overseas).

MEMBERSHIP ON EDITORIAL COMMITTEES OR BOARDS

Member, Editorial Board, Gender & Society (2014-2017)

Advisory Editor, Against The Current (political magazine, semi-scholarly; since 1993)

Member, Belt & Road China-Caribbean International Research Cluster, coordinated by the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Anthropological Association (AAA) American Sociological Association (ASA) Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH) Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)

REFEREE/PEER REVIEW SERVICE

(Book manuscripts and proposals, journal articles, and grant applications)

Smithsonian Institution Press (now defunct)

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Lynn Rienner Publishers Sage/Pine Forge Press University of Notre Dame Press Routledge (Politics and International Relations Series)

Social and Economic Studies Global Development Studies (previously 21st Century Policy Review) American Sociological Review Feminist Africa Gender & Society Caribbean Studies William & Mary Quarterly Comparative Studies in Society and History Gender, Place and Culture Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Canadian Journal of Development Studies Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society Anthropologie et Sociétés Globalizations The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Gender & History Third World Quarterly Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

National Science Foundation Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) NWO, Dutch Research Council, Vidi Talent Scheme (the Netherlands)

AWARDS & HONORS

2001-2002 Henry Charles Chapman Research Fellowship, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Study (May-August, 2002)

2000-2001 NEH-Schomburg Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (NYPL) (January-June 2001)

RESEARCH GRANTS

Appleby-Mosher Fund, Syracuse University, 2018 research grant. Project: “An In-Depth Analysis of the One Hill District CBA in Pittsburgh: What are the Benefits to the Community?” $1,200 (with Athena Last, preliminary dissertation research)

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Maxwell Dean’s Summer Assistantship 2012 for “The New Chinese Presence in the Caribbean.” $1,500 for Graduate Assistant (Yan Liu, Caribbean field trip)

Appleby-Mosher Fund, Syracuse University, 2010 research grant. Project: “The North Carolina International Worker Justice Campaign: A Unique Chapter in the Struggle for Labor Rights in the U.S.” $1,200

Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS, University of Pittsburgh) Faculty Research Grant, 2002-2003 (used in 2004), for historical archival research in Jamaica and Barbados. $4,500

Center for Afroamerican and African Studies-Ford Foundation Project Award (University of Michigan), 1991-92 – “Afro-Caribbean Family and Gender Roles.” $1,000

CUSO (formerly Canadian University Services Overseas) research grant to conduct “Caribbean Women Workers in Industry Project -- Phase I;” nine months of field work and participatory research workshops; three months of write-up; one year of follow-up activities. 1986-88. Cdn$60,000 for Year 1; follow-up meetings and workshops centrally funded.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

“Colonial Penality and Criminalization of Women in Barbados, 1870-1930,” 44th Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Conference, Santa Marta, Colombia, June 3-7, 2019.

“Chinese Migration to the Eastern Caribbean: A Historical and Comparative Framework.” Panel: Chinese Immigration in the Caribbean, 2018 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (“Latin American Studies in a Globalized World”), Barcelona, Spain, May 23-26, 2018.

Roundtable Presentation: “China in the Caribbean, The Caribbean in China,”43rd Annual Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Conference, Havana, Cuba, June 4-8, 2018.

Invited Panelist, “China in the Caribbean/The Caribbean in China,” A workshop hosted by the Penn Wharton China Center, Beijing, China, August 4, 2017 (Organizer: Professor Deborah A. Thomas, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania) My paper: “The Chinese Presence in the Caribbean: A Historical and Comparative Framework.”

“Chinese Transnationalism in the Caribbean: A Historical and Comparative Framework,” 9th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO 2016 Vancouver), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 6-8, 2016.

Invited Panelist, “Sovereignty at Risk: Caribbean Mini-States on the Margins of Globalization,” A Symposium on the Eastern Caribbean states of Dominica, Grenada and Antigua & Barbuda, Department of Africana Studies, Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 22, 2016.

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“Chinese Transnationalism in the Caribbean: A Historical and Comparative Framework,” Caribbean Studies Association, 40th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 25-29, 2015.

“Outbound China in the (Eastern) Caribbean: State Development Assistance and Private Entrepreneurial Immigrants,” The Remaking of Global Hegemony: An International Conference on Political and Economic Change, sponsored by IDEAZ Journal (UWI), IDEAZ Institute (Austria), The Centre for Tourism and Policy Research, and the Department of Government (UWI), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, February 27, 2014.

“The New Chinese Presence in the Caribbean: Donor State and Entrepreneurial Immigrant,” Eastern Sociological Society, 2014 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, February 23, 2014.

“Outbound China in the Caribbean: State Development Assistance and Private Entrepreneurial Immigrants” (with Yan Liu), Conversations in Conflict Studies, Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), Syracuse University, November 6, 2013.

“New Chinese Presence in the (Eastern) Caribbean,” Alternative Trade: Critical Approaches and New Directions in Trade and Development: A Two-Day Workshop, International Development Studies Program, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, November 1-2, 2013.

“The New Chinese Presence in the Caribbean: Preliminary Findings from Dominica” (with Yan Liu), Caribbean Studies Association, 38th Annual Meeting, Grenada, June 2-7, 2013.

“Table Talk,” two-person staged public discussion with film director and producer, Frances- Anne Solomon (award-winning filmmaker, writer, and producer; Artistic Director, President and Co-Founder of Leda Serene Films and CaribbeanTales), Day 1 of the 2013 Caribbean Cinematic Festival, Community Folk Art Center, February 6, 2013.

“Clashing Patriarchies and Sexual Misconduct in 1930s Dominica;” and, with Godfrey St. Bernard, “Post-Independence Immigration in the Commonwealth of Dominica: Implications for Political Economy and Human Development,” SALISES 50/50 Conference 2012, Critical Reflections in a Time of Uncertainty, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, August 20-24, 2012.

“Clashing Patriarchies and the Management of Sexual Misconduct in the Colonial Teaching Service, 1930s British West Indies” (roundtable), Eastern Sociological Society, 82nd Annual Meeting, New York City, February 23-26, 2012.

“Punish and Discipline: Gender and Carceral Regimes in Barbados, 1880-1930,” Caribbean Studies Association, 35th Annual Meeting, Barbados, May 31-June 4, 2010.

“Migration and the Regime of Female Imprisonment in Barbados, 1875-1929,” Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora – An interdisciplinary conference on Latin America and the Caribbean and their Diasporas in the twenty-first century (joint Syracuse/Cornell conference), Syracuse University, April 10, 2010.

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Invited Comments (with Sari Biklen, Cultural Foundations of Education), “Who Counts as Smart? Whose Knowledge Counts as Worthy?” – First Democratizing Knowledge Conversation (public forum), Democratizing Knowledge (DK) Project, Syracuse University, October 14, 2009.

Invited Respondent, “Organizing for the Future I” Panel (papers by Norman Girvan and Alissa Trotz), Remembering the Future: The Legacies of Radical Politics in the Caribbean Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, April 4, 2009.

“Cosmopolitan Globalism and the Radical Tradition of Caribbean Political Economy,” Re- inventing the Political Economy Tradition of the Caribbean (in honor of Professor Norman Girvan), 9th Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, March 26–28, 2008.

“‘To the Scandal of the Public’: Double Standards in the Colonial Service in the British West Indies,” Caribbean Studies Association, 32nd Annual Meeting, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, May 2-June 1, 2007.

“‘To the Scandal of the Public’: Moral Misconduct and the Disciplinary Double Standard in the Colonial Teaching Service in the British West Indies,” American Anthropological Association, 105th Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, November 18, 2006.

Panel Chair and Paper Presenter, Panel: “Global Reverberations: Changing Direction within Circuits of Migration, Trade and Cultural Identities in the Caribbean and Central American Contexts.” Paper: “Identity Shift in the Barbadian Female Labor Force, 1880-1930,” LASA 2006, XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.

Invited Lecture, “From ‘Disorderly Conduct’ to Organized Self-Restraint: Transition in an Afro- Caribbean Female Labor Force, 1880-1930,” Committee for African American and African Diaspora Studies, Sociology Department, and local chapter of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Indiana University Purdue University (IUPUI), Indianapolis, October 24, 2005.

“Hierarchies of Whiteness in the Geographies of Empire: Thomas Thistlewood and the Barretts of Jamaica,” presented to the Migration & Identity Faculty Research Colloquium (series) 2005- 2006, The Humanities Center, Carnegie Mellon University, September 22, 2005.

“Confronting the Amnesia of Eurocentric History: Colonialism, Free Trade, and the British West Indies,” 4th Caribbean Reasonings, The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonization, Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, June 17, 2005.

International Organizing Committee member and panelist, Walter Rodney 25th Anniversary Commemoration Groundings (international activist symposium), Guyana, June 8-13, 2005.

“Brutality and Intimacy in the Formation of British West Indian Society,” 89th Association for the Study of African-American Life and Society Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2004.

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“Unspeakable Worlds and Muffled Voices: Thomas Thistlewood as Agent and Medium of Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Society,” 3rd Caribbean Reasonings, Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall Conference, Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, June 18, 2004.

“Slavery and Moral Regimes in the British West Indies,” Latin American Reading Room Annex, Hillman Library, sponsored by Pitt Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), September 16, 2003.

“The Evolution of Afro-Caribbean Female Status in the British West Indies,” 28th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Belize City, Belize, May 27, 2003.

“Between Respectability and Self-Respect: the Evolution of Afro-Caribbean Women’s Status, 1838-1938,” Fellows seminar, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, June 25, 2002.

“Exploring the Intellectual Legacy of Lucille Mathurin: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Caribbean History,” 27th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, May 29, 2002.

Panel chair/discussant, “Democracy in the Caribbean,” 27th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Nassau, Bahamas, May 29, 2002.

Panelist, “Women, Human Rights, and Civil Society,” Transcending Boundaries: Uniting in the Face of Adversity, 7th Annual Women’s Conference, University of Pittsburgh, March 29, 2002.

Invited Lecture, “‘Unblushing Licentiousness’ and the Mediation of a Moral Order in the British West Indies,” Department of African American Studies and Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, March 27, 2002.

Invited Lecture, “Sustainability and Development in the Caribbean: Rhetoric and Reality,” University of Pittsburgh—Johnstown, sponsored by The Student Council for World Affairs and the Division of Social Sciences at UPJ, March 22, 2002.

“‘Unblushing Licentiousness’ and the Mediation of a Moral Order in the British West Indies: An Introduction,” Women’s Studies Program seminar, University of Pittsburgh, November 7, 2001.

Panelist, “Cuba And/In the Caribbean,” 2001 Latin American Studies Association Congress, Washington, DC, September 8, 2001.

“From ‘Disorderly Conduct’ to Organized Self-Restraint: Transition in the Barbadian Female Labor Force, 1880-1930,” Fellows seminar, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, New York, June 14, 2001.

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“Tourism and Developmental Strategies in the Caribbean,” Cuba And/In the Caribbean Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, October 24-26, 2000.

“Globalization, Sustainability, and Bananas: A Caribbean Perspective,” Borders and Inequality in Policy History: A National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State University, June 1-3, 2000.

“Between Respectability and Self-Respect: Afro-Caribbean Women’s Labor History,” 25th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Castries, St. Lucia, May 29-June 3, 2000.

“Afro-Caribbean Women Workers and the Conundrum of Respectability: A Historical Analysis,” 98th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 17-21, 1999.

Background Notes/Introduction of director, Horace Ove, and film presentation of The Orchid House, Caribbean film festival/symposium “Imagining the Caribbean: Aesthetics, Identity, and Location,” Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University, March 29, 1999.

Joint (Invited) Lecture with Professor Wally Seccombe, “Family and Reproduction: Western Europe and the Caribbean Compared,” Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, December 4, 1997.

Invited Lecture, “Gender, Occupational Stratification and Social Mobility in the Anglophone Caribbean: Paradigmatic Perspectives,” Bucknell University Focus Semester Program (“The Caribbean”), October 28, 1997.

“Women and Structural Adjustment in Jamaica,” New Currents in Caribbean Thought: Looking Towards the 21st Century: A Symposium on Politics, Culture, and Society, Michigan State University, April 4-5, 1997.

Round-table Panelist, “Global Neoliberalism and New Directions in Caribbean Thought and Strategies,” 21st Caribbean Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-31, 1996.

Discussant, “Status Hierarchies and Demographic Processes; a Focus on Gender in the Caribbean of the 1990s” panel, 21st Caribbean Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-31, 1996.

Invited Lecture, “The Politics of the Garment Trade in the Caribbean,” co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Founders College, and the Division of Social Science, York University, Ontario, Canada, March 26, 1996.

“The U.S.-Jamaica Apparel Circuit: Fusion and Confusion of Interests,” 20th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Willemstad, Curaçao, May 22-27, 1995.

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“The Case of the Anglophone Caribbean and Haiti,” Understanding Caribbean Migration: Issues for the 1990s Symposium, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan, April 3, 1995.

Invited Lecture, “Myths and Realities of Gender and Education: Perspectives from the African Diaspora,” Black History Month 1995 Lecture, The African American Studies Program, University of Michigan-Flint, February 13, 1995.

“Caribbean Responses to Global Restructuring: Class and Gender Perspectives,” Black Politics and Theory in Crisis: An International Symposium, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, September 9, 1994.

“Conditions of Female Garment Workers in the Export-Processing Industries of the Caribbean,” Women in the Global Economy: Making Connections Conference, Institute for Research on Women, University at Albany, S.U.N.Y., April 23, 1994.

“Export-processing Industry and the New Peripheralization of the Commonwealth Caribbean,” 18th Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Kingston and Ocho Rios, Jamaica, May 24-29, 1993 (paper presented by proxy).

Invited Panelist, “Haiti: The State Terror Continues,” Forum sponsored by Solidarity and National Lawyers Guild, Detroit Chapter, Detroit, April 16, 1993.

Invited Lecture, “Haitian Realities and U.S. Policy,” presentation to Michigan Journalism Fellows, Wallace House, University of Michigan, April 7, 1993.

“At the Junction of the Global and the Local: Transnational Industry and Women Workers in the Caribbean,” Reinventing Socialism: The Socialist Project & Realities of Capitalism Today, 4th Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers, Havana, Cuba, May 29 - June 12, 1992.

Invited Symposium Panelist, “Labor Rights in International Trade,” Human Rights and Labor Rights: A New Look at Workers in the Global Economy Symposium, The Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School, March 27, 1992.

“American Companies, Third World Workers and Labor Rights -- The Case of ‘Pico’,” RC/Benzinger Library Colloquium Series, Benzinger Library, U-M, February 18, 1992.

Respondent, “Politics in the Age of Clarence Thomas,” 1991 Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, November 9, 1991.

Round-table Panelist, “Sexism and Racism in Universities and Society -- Social Transformation,” The Society for Socialist Studies 1991 Learned Societies Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, June 1, 1991.

Panelist, “Multinational Corporations and International Labor” Workshop, 21st National Conference on Women and the Law, Detroit, Michigan, March 24, 1990.

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“The World Market Factory, Women Workers and Labor Relations in the Eastern Caribbean,” The Interdisciplinary Program on Working Life: International Developments in Work and Employment Relations Series, Labor Studies Center, University of Michigan, January 25, 1990.

“Historical and Recent Trends in Caribbean Women’s Labour Force and Childbearing Activities,” Women, Work, and Income National Workshop, St. Vincent, West Indies, March 12, 1987.

“Feminism and Third World Liberation,” Women in Africa F.A.S.T. (Forum for African Students in Toronto) Conference, York University, Toronto, February 9, 1985.

“Gender and Class in the Caribbean,” 1984 Learned Societies Conference, University of Guelph, Ontario, June 10, 1984.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Syracuse University and Departmental Committees:  Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Fall 2019  Faculty Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Fall 2018  Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Sociology, 2014-2019  Humanities Center Faculty Advisory Board, 2014-2015, 2017-  Elected member, College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Council, 2012-2014  Elected member, University Senate; Diversity Sub-Committee, 2011-13  Promotion & Tenure Committee, 4 years  Curriculum Committee, 2009-2012  Humanities Council, 2009-2012  Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) Steering Committee, Syracuse University, 2008-c. 2010  Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Fall Term, 2008  Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Fall Term, 2011  Faculty Search Committee, Department of Geography, Spring Term, 2012  Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Fall Term, 2016

Member, Department of Sociology Admissions Committee, University of Pittsburgh (2004- 2005)

Member, Department of Sociology Teaching Evaluation Committee, University of Pittsburgh (2005-2008)

Member, Steering Committee, Women’s Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh (2000-2006)

Member, Women’s Studies Student Research Fund (2001-2004), University of Pittsburgh

Member, Women’s Studies Faculty Research Fund (2005-2006), University of Pittsburgh

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Member (elected by CLAS faculty), Advisory Committee, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Pittsburgh (2001-2004)

Member, CLAS Graduate Student Field Research Grants Committee, University of Pittsburgh (2001-2004). Chaired committee in 2003-2004.

Member, CLAS Latin American Social and Public Policy Fellowships Committee, University of Pittsburgh (2001-2008)

Chair, Program Committee, Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University (1998-2000)

Acting Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, BGSU, May-August 1999.

Member, American Culture Studies Program Executive Committee, BGSU (1998-2000)

Member, Africana Studies Advisory Committee, BGSU (1998-2000)

CAAS Associate, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan (1995- 2000)

Faculty Representative, Educational Policies and Curriculum Committee, Residential College, University of Michigan. September 1991-April 1992

Faculty Representative, Executive Committee, Women’s Studies Program, University of Michigan. September 1990-April 1992

UNDERGRADUATE HONORS & MASTERS THESIS and DOCTORAL DISSERTATION SUPERVISION

Membership on over 30 dissertation and 10 masters thesis committees to date; reader for several undergraduate honors theses. Fields: Popular Culture, American Culture Studies, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, Women’s Studies, History, Education, International Relations, and Sociology.

PhD Advisor:

 Yan Liu, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University (PhD Program Advisor, current)  Athena Last, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University (PhD Program Advisor, current)  Sambriddhi Kharel. Dissertation Title: “The Dialectics of Dalit Identity and Resistance in Nepal.” Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; successfully defended, April 2010.

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Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor:

Savanna Stillgess, University of Pittsburgh, (a) Sociology Honors and (b) B. Phil (Hons.) thesis, University Honors College. Thesis Title: The Role of Minority Academic Support Programs in the College Success of African American Students‖ (2006)

MEMBERSHIP ON NON-ACADEMIC BOARDS

Member, Board of Directors, Research & Education Fund (UEREF) of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), headquartered in Pittsburgh (since 2004)

Member and Secretary, Board of Directors, Community Folk Art Center (SU), Syracuse (2012- 2019; 2013-2016)

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