office:
Mona Campus - Room 58 (FHE - New Arts Block)
Professional Experience:
- Professor, University of the West Indies, October 2017-present
- Deputy Dean, Graduate Studies & Research, Faculty of Humanities and Education, 2018 2019
- Director/Department Head, Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI, August 2012-July 2015
- Senior Lecturer (Tenured), University of the West Indies, 2010-2017
- Lecturer, University of the West Indies, 2007-2010
- Part-Time Lecturer, University of the West Indies, 2005-2007
- Teaching Assistant/Course Co-Ordinator/Part Time Lecturer, University of the West Indies 1999-2002
- University Tutor, University of the West Indies, 1996-1999
Skills:
Linguistic Skills
- Jamaican Creole – Read/Write – Full Mastery
- English – Read/Write –Full Mastery
- Spanish – Read/Write – Intermediate
- Portugese – Read/Write – Survival (Basic)
Honours and Awards:
- Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information - Culture Icon Award 2025
- True United Sisters Awardee – Education and Culture Award 2025
- Queens of Reggae Island Honorary Ceremony Awardee 2023
- Linstead Community Development Committee and The Linstead Black Togetherness Committee – Music and Culture Awardee 2020
- Celebration of Books, Main Library, Mona Campus, UWI – 2024, 2020 & 2019
- Distinguished Alumna for Cultural Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University – 2017
- Principal’s Research Fellowship – UWI, Mona Campus 2016-17
- Principal’s Research Fellowship – UWI, Mona Campus – 2012-14
- Principal’s Research Award for Best Research Publication, UWI – Book – 2010
- Principal’s Research Award for Best Research Publication, UWI – Article - 2010
Public Service:
- 2025-present – Jamaica Journal Publication Committee
- 2024-present- Entertainment Advisory Board – Director - Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport
- 2019-2026 – Reggae Gold Awards – Selection Committee Member, Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport
- 2024 - Jamaica Music Museum Hall of Fame Inductions 2024 Selection Committee, Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport
- 2022-2025 - Consultant and Reviewer of Annual Dancehall Queen Competition – Queen of the Mecca
- May 2021 – Jamaica Festival Song Selection Committee Member, JCDC.
- 2021- Co-Convenor/Collaborator for initiation of Dancehall Dance Association (“DDA”), inaugurated May 2021
- April-July, 2020- Judge – Jamaica Festival Song Contest, Jamaica Cultural Development Commission
- December 2015 to 2016 – Member of Committee to Guide the Inscription of Reggae to the ICH List, Ministry of Youth and Culture
- December 2011-2022 – Jamaica Music Museum Advisory Committee
Professional Memberships:
- Caribbean Studies Association – President 2025-26
- Caribbean Studies Association - Vice President 2024-25
- May 2021-present – Advisory Board Member – Caribbean Conjunctures Journal
- May 2018-2020 – Board Member of IrieJam Media Group
- October 2017 to present – Member of Editorial Board – Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
- October 2008 – 2023 Member of Editorial Board – Journal of the University College of the Cayman Islands (JUCCI).
- February 2009 to 2023 – Member of Editorial Collective – Cultural Landscapes Journal
- October 2008 – 2022– Member of Editorial Board – Journal of the University College of the Cayman Islands (JUCCI).
- April 2006- 2020 – Member of Editorial Board – Critical World: Thinking Globalization Through Music
Courses Taught:
CLTR6000 - Theory and Conceptualization of Culture
CLTR6100 - Methods of Inquiry in Cultural Studies)
CLTR6030 – Dynamics of Caribbean Culture
CLTR3501 – Discourses in Cultural Studies, and
CLTR3905 – Internship for Entertainment & Cultural Enterprise Management BA
CLTR2501- Introduction to Caribbean Cultural Studies
CLTR2519 – Deconstructing the Culture of Sports
CLTR3507 – Culture, Gender & Sexuality in Jamaican Popular Music
CLTR2505 – Entertainment, Media & Culture,
CLTR1001 – Introduction to the Study of Culture
Research Projects:
- 2025 to present - Joint Researcher with Alcorn University, USA on Gulf Scholars Project
- January 2024 - April 2025 – Co-Researcher with Dr. Jeremy Lowe of San Diego State University and Professor Mona Webber, UWI, Mona on the Mek Moves Project.
- June 2022 - present Translator Manager (Spanish to English) for Book Manuscript Project
- February 2018 to present – The Dancehall Archive and Research Initiative (“DHA”)
- August 2016 to present – Transnational Research Project Titled: “Dancehall’s Scattered Children”
- February - June 2013 – OAS Regional Cultural Heritage Project
- 2012 - 2014 – Jamaica’s Cultural/Creative Industries Research, UWI, Mona
- August 2011 - 2014 - Co-researcher on project titled “Understanding the Media’s Coverage of Dancehall Feuds: A Content Analysis of Jamaica’s Mainstream Media Coverage of the Dancehall Feuds – 1970 to 2010”.
- July 2011 - April 2014 - Co-researcher in Cultural Studies and Performance Cluster for Joint York University and ICS, UWI, Mona SSHRC funded Project
- January 2009 - January 2010 – Project Manager and Lead Investigator of Research on Popular Dancehall Music Consumption and Violence in Jamaica
