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Dr. Jessica Byron studied at the UWI Cave Hill and St. Augustine campuses before doing her Ph.D. in International Relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Before coming to the Department of Government in 1994, she had lectured in The Hague and in Geneva, and had worked as a Foreign Service Officer for the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, and for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of Caribbean - European relations, Caribbean - Latin American relations, Small States in the Multilateral System and Gender and International Relations. She currently lectures GT34A International Relations of the Caribbean; GT35H Latin American Politics and Development; part of GT37M Contemporary Issues in International Relations; GT62A International Political Theories and Issues; GT62E Government and Politics in Latin America; GT62H Regionalism in a Globalized Age. |
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Damion Blake |
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Robert Buddan, BA (UWI), MA (UCLA), Lecturer in GT22C-Foundations of Caribbean Politics and GT22D-Politics in the Caribbean. His recent publication was The Foundation of Caribbean Politics 2001. His current research area includes constitutional reform and governance. |
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Ivanhoe Cruickshank is an Assistant Lecturer in Public Sector Management.
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Christine Cummings, BA, PhD (UWI), is a Lecturer in Political Sociology. Christine's interests centre on politics and sport with special emphasis on cricket. Her recently submitted PhD thesis is interestingly titled: "Cricket as an Element of the Superstructure". |
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Sandra Grey |
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Lucy Eugene, Lecturer in International Law / International Trade Law. Lucy studied at the UWI, St. Augustine and Mona campuses before completing her PhD (Law) at the University of Manchester, England. Her PhD thesis was on the WTO and the incorporation of labour standards. |
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Anthony Harriott, BA, PhD UWI, is Senior Lecturer in Political Institutions and Methodology. Anthony's recent PhD thesis presented original work on the character of the Jamaican security forces. |
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Suzette Haughton, PhD (King's College London); M.Sc. and B.Sc. (University of the West Indies ), is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Government. She lectures Public International Law. Her PhD thesis focused on globalisation and illicit drugs trafficking. Dr. Haughton's interest lies in the fields of Security Studies, International Relations and International Law broadly but more specifically, the multi-faceted aspects of security threats affecting the Americas and the United Kingdom . She is currently researching bilateral and multilateral diplomacy within the context of specific negotiated security agreements. Other areas of interest include: Security and International Relations, International law, Borders and Border controls and Globalisation |
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Clinton Hutton, BA, PhD, UWI, is Lecturer in political philosophy and culture. Clinton's interests span Black Nationalist thought, gender studies and Jamaican political history. His PhD thesis is a study of the Ideology of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion. Clinton is also a painter and a photographer. |
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Hedy Isaacs, teaches Public Management and Public Policy at the University of the West Indies . Dr. Isaacs has written on productivity improvement, partnerships and human resource and personnel management. She contributed ‘Non-monetary Incentives and Productivity' to the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, co-authored an article, ‘Building Effective Shared Service Partnerships', in the International Review of Public Administration and authored ‘ The Allure of Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric' that appeared in Social and Economic Studies. She has served as a Consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank's, Regional Policy Dialogue, Public Policy Management and Transparency Network, and has undertaken diagnostic studies framed within the human resource management discourse, of Civil Service Systems (CSS) in six countries. Her research interests include institutional assessment of CSS, conflict resolution, innovative human resource management strategies and challenges to governance specifically, public productivity improvement, public private partnerships, and organizational behavior.
Hedy Isaacs holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration, from Rutgers University (United States); MSc. Human Resource Development, from Manchester University's, Institute for Development Policy and Management (England; BSc. (Hons.) Economics and Management Studies and Diploma in Public Administration from the University of the West Indies , ( Jamaica .)
While at Rutgers , she was inducted into the Phi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society in Public Administration. Dr Isaacs was more recently, nominated for the UWI/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Excellence Award. |
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Rupert Lewis, BSc Econ, MSc, PhD UWI is Professor in Political Thought. Rupert has written extensively on the work of Marcus Garvey, with special emphasis on his activities in Jamaica and the Caribbean region. His most recent publication focuses on the life and political thought of Walter Rodney. His other publication is Garvey: His Work and Impact. (Edited with Pat Bryan), Africa World Press, 1994. |
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Ivan Martinez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Lecturer in International Relations.
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Jermaine McCalpin, B.Sc Hons., M.Sc (UWI), M.A, PhD ( Brown University ) is a lecturer in political science specializing in Africana political philosophy and transitional justice. Prior to returning to UWI he was adjunct Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University . His research interests include the nature and consequences of truth commissions and transitional justice for deeply divided societies, Africana political thought and praxis as well as the transformation of political institutions for social justice in Jamaica . Dr. McCalpin is currently working on a truth commission model for Jamaica . His dissertation entitled Justice Under Constraints: The Nature of Transitional Justice in Deeply Divided Societies, The Case of South Africa is currently under review. Download CV |
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Brian Meeks, BSc Soc Sci.., MSc, PhD UWI, is Professor of Social and Political Change and outgoing Head of the Department. He was recently The Claudia Jones Visiting Professor at Florida International University for the Fall Semester (Semester 1) of academic year 2002/2003. He has taught political science and political theory at the University of the West Indies and James Madison College, Michigan State University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge University and the Latin American Studies Centre at Stanford University. His publications include Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory, (Warwick University: Macmillian, 1993); Radical Caribbean: From Black Power to Abu Bakr, (The UWI Press, 1996); and Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean, (The UWI Press, 2000). |
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Dana Morris |
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Lawrence Powell, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a Senior Lecturer in Methodology, with specialisations in public opinion measurement, political psychology, and media politics. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Political Science and the International Bulletin of Political Psychology, and is founder/director of the Cross-cultural Variations in Distributive Justice Perception (CVDJP) project, an ongoing international survey of citizen attitudes toward equality and social justice that now hasresearch collaborators at universities in over 20 countries. His publications include The Senior Rights Movement: Framing the Policy Debate in America, The Politics of Aging: Power and Policy, and various articles and book chapters dealing with the psychology of justice perception, social change movements, U.S. pension policies and propaganda and 'reality construction' via mass media. Dr Powell previously taught at Purdue University, the University of Texas, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand before coming to the University of the West Indies in 2001. |
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Eris Schoburgh, BA, MSc, PhD, (UWI) is a Lecturer in Public Sector Management. |
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Maziki Thame |
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Diana Thorburn, B.A. (Virginia), M.Sc. (UWI), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) is a lecturer in International Relations. Her areas of interest, besides Caribbean international relations in general, are: US foreign policy, foreign banks in developing countries, and gender and development. Most recently she has been doing research on religion and foreign policy. Dr. Thorburn has published articles in edited collections, academic and scholarly journals and magazines such as NACLA Report on the Americas, Feminist Review, and Pensamiento Proprio , among others. She received her doctorate in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Thorburn is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French and is a director on the boards of a variety of educational foundations and charities. |
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Lisa Vasciannie, BSc, MSc (UWI) is an Assistant Lecturer in International Relations. She is currently working on her PhD. Thesis on Election Observation in the Caribbean. She has a recent publication entitled "Election Observation: The Case of the December 1997 Elections in Jamaica". For academic year 2001/2002 she was a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University. |
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Stephen Vasciannie, BSc. Econ, UWI, MA (Jurisprudence), DPhil, Oxford, LLM Cantab., is Professor in International Law. Professor Vasciannie is an attorney-at-law who is a member of the Jamaican Bar and the Bar of New York State. His interests span a wide range of topics in International law, with special emphasis on the Law of the Sea. His books include: Land-Locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States in the Law of the Sea, Oxford University Press, 1990 and Here and Elsewhere: Short Essays on Local and International Affairs 1995 - 1997, Pear Tree Press, 1997 and International Law and Selected Human Rights in Jamaica, Norman Manley Law School, 2002. |
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Lloyd Waller is a Lecturer in Methodology at the University of the West Indies , Mona-Jamaica. Lloyd Waller holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, with a specialization in Information and Communication for Development and Advanced Research Methods. His thesis entitled “ICT for Whose Development: Towards the development of methodologies and analytical tools for understanding and explaining the ICT for Development Phenomenon” attempts to develop advanced methodological tools for studying the ICT for Development Phenomenon. Dr. Waller also holds a BSc in International Relations, an MSc Sociology of Development both from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica . Dr. Waller specializes in the development, advancement and use of relevant research methodologies, methods and analytical tools to integrate technology, business, government and society for the purpose of development. His primary areas of research are (1) Advanced Research Methodologies and (2) Development Studies - with a special emphasis on corruption, electronic governance, as well as information and communication technologies in foreign trade and development. His secondary areas of research include: Project Management; Small Business Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management. Dr. Waller is the Strategic Polling and Survey Manager in the Research Unit of the Centre for Leadership and Governance as well as the Logistic Survey Manager for the Boxill Polls. |
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The Department is also assisted by a number of part-time staff including the following:
Mr. Ansord Hewitt
Dr. Cezley Sampson
Dr. Allan Kirton
Ms. Gladys Young
Winston Anderson
Lorraine Patterson
Richard Crawford
Michele Lowe
Dave Gosse
Nicola Satchell
Nicosia Shakes
Maurice Tomlinson |
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