Dr
Dalea
Bean

Title: 
Senior Lecturer/Head of Institute

Staff

Overview

Dr Bean joins the Mona Unit after over 15 years of stellar service to The University of the West Indies and IGDS as Senior Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator at the IGDS Regional Coordinating Office.

Dr Bean has researched extensively in the areas of women and gender in Caribbean history, women in conflict situations, gender and education, women in the hotel and tourism industries as well as other critical areas. A proud Historian by training, she holds a PhD in History from the University of the West Indies, has taught at the tertiary level for over 20 years and has been trained in online and face to face instruction, research supervision and education for change from the University of the West Indies and the University of Toronto. Dr Bean has also been involved in programme and curriculum development at The UWI, and has conducted numerous regional and global training exercises and research projects. She has served on many UWI Boards and committees and has also been the recipient of visiting fellowships such as the Xavier-Tulane Partnership for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (XUTULAC) and Erasmus+ staff mobility award to the University of Iceland’s Gender Equality Studies & Training Programme (GEST) Programme.

Dr Bean has published on many aspects of gender and development, including 2 books and over 20 refereed book chapters, journal articles and training manuals. Her first single-authored book: Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change was published in 2017 by Palgrave MacMillan. Along with Professor Verene Shepherd, she is co-editor of the forthcoming collection: Gender Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities, being published by The University of the West Indies Press. She was also invited by the RJR Gleaner Communications Group to write Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up Half the Sky in 2020 celebrating 60 phenomenal women, and is co-author of the forthcoming historical manuscript With Eyes on the Skies and the Prize: Celebrating 50 years of the Airports Authority of Jamaica with Professor Andrew Spencer, being published by Ian Randle Publishers.

Dr Bean actively contributes to the region’s secondary education through Caribbean Examination Council as Assistant Chief Examiner for CSEC History and was recently appointed to the Board of the National Education Trust (NET). A passionate gender and youth advocate, she serves as Distinguished President of the Kiwanis Club of Young Professionals Kingston and is also co-founder (with Alia Wedderburn) of the foundation I Have Pretty Hair focusing on empowering youth to be proud of, and loving towards, their natural hair.

 

Email: dalea.bean02@uwimona.edu.jm

Publications
Books: 
Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2018
Book Chapters: 
“The Crucible of Contradiction: Jamaican's Loyalty to and Alienation from Empire during World War II” Global Perspectives on The Second World War, Routledge, 2023.
Looking Back to Move Forward: An Historical Overview of Gender Based Violence and Intimate Partner Violence in Jamaica. Gender Dimensions of Violence Prevention. Edited By Dr. Ramona Biholar & Dr. Dacia Leslie, Routledge Press, 2022.
Shifting Bodies and Missing Commodities: Louise Bennett’s commentary on the impact of World War II on Working Class Jamaicans.” 100 + Voices For Miss Lou. UWI Press, 2021.
“Bodies in Conflict: Policing Sexual Liaisons in Jamaica during World War II” World War II and the Caribbean. Debbie McCollin and Karen Eccles eds. University of the West Indies Press, 2017 (Gold medal for the prestigious 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the History (World) category).
“Vectors of Venereal Diseases: The Perceived Threat of Prostitutes to Military Efficiency in Jamaica during World Wars I and II.” Breaking New Ground: New Perspectives on Caribbean History, Culture, Literature and Education. Daive Dunkley ed., pp 129- 156 New York: Lexington Publishers, 2011.
“For our King, For our Country, For Ourselves: Jamaican Women’s Narratives of Participation in World War II.” Engendering Caribbean History: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Verene Shepherd, ed., pp 766-777. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
“Born to Serve: The Political Life of Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller.” Women in Caribbean Politics. Cynthia Barrow-Giles ed., pp. 158-168. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
Journal Articles: 
“Writing New Histories of War and Women’s Activism in Jamaica: An Interview by Reena Goldthree” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 12: 345–362, 2018
“This war is going to teach us many lessons: Amy Bailey’s instructions to Jamaica during World War II” Caribbean Quarterly 63 (4), 2017 H Index- 9
Spencer. A. and Bean, D. Female Sex Tourism in Jamaica: An Assessment of Perceptions. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management 6 (1), 13-21., 2017 H Index 31
Bean, D and Spencer A. “Swimming against the tide: The tourist trade during World War I” Jamaican Historical Review, 27, 45-63, 2015.
Bean, D. and Spencer, A., “Assessing Gender Depictions in Jamaican Hotels through the lens of Entertainment Coordinators: An Application of the Theory of Performativity to Creative Industries.” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 37 (3/4), 97-114, 2013
“Teaching Men Feminism in the Caribbean: Experiences from an Online Programme.” Online Journal of Distance Education 1 (2), 15-20, 2012.
Spencer, A. and Bean, D., (2011) “Sex matters: Differences in Perceptions of Male and Female Line Level Employees about their Work in the Hospitality Industry in Jamaica.” Journal of Arts and Sciences 4(9), 413–426, 2011
Bean, D. “A Dangerous Class of Woman?”: Prostitution in Jamaica During the World Wars. Jamaica Historical Review (XXIV), 2009, 42-50.
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