Organizational Links

•  THE HISTORY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION

In liaison with interested teachers in the schools and personnel at the Ministry of Education the History Teacher's Association was recently reestablished. There is now a functioning executive on which the Department is represented. Final year students, in particular, should be reminded that this will be their professional organi- zation if they decide on a teaching career. Therefore they have an interest in ensuring that the History Teacher's Association remains active and vibrant.

•  THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN HISTORIANS

This is the Caribbean-wide professional organization which caters to the interest of professional and amateur historians, University and School Teachers of History and to any individuals interested in Caribbean History. This organization has been in existence since 1969, and its main activity is the holding of an Annual Conference in a different Caribbean country each year. Conferences have been held in Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, Curacao, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. The value of these Conferences is that the historians of the region can maintain contact with each other and have regular opportunity for the exchange of results of their own research. As a result, a considerable amount of research and writing has been stimulated over the last ten years, and much of this research is now available in some form to University students inside the region. The 2006 conference was held in Trinidad.


•  THE JAMAICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Department has long worked in close association with the Jamaican Historical Society which apart from other activities produces the Jamaican Historical Review. Professor Carl Campbell is presently editor of the Review, the President of the Society is Professor Patrick Bryan

•  ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAMAICA (archaeologyjamaica@hotmail.com)

The Archaeological Society of Jamaica was founded in 1970. It organises lectures and field trips, and publishes a regular newsletter called Archaeology Jamaica. The current Presi- dent is Evelyn Thompson and Vice -President is Andrea Richard. Membership information can be obtained from Dr. S. Rampersad in the Archaeology Lab.