Karen Carpenter | Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Unit

Dr
Karen
Carpenter

Title:

Senior Lecturer/Head

Email:

karen.carpenter@uwimona.edu.jm

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Dr. Karen Carpenter is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the IGDS, Mona Unit. Her areas of specialization include: Gender & Sexuality, Interpersonal Dynamics, Diversity and Relational Challenges. She is a Psychologist and Florida Board Certified Clinical Sexologist. She is the Editor of Interweaving Tapestries of Sexuality & Culture; author of Love & Sex: The Basics and Questioning Caribbean Jewish Identity, and co-author of the upcoming Language, Race & the Global Jamaican. Dr. Carpenter is the host of Love & Sex for radio and television. Her research interests include: gender & human sexuality; psycholinguistics; phenomenology.

Dr. Carpenter is also the Director for The Caribbean Sexuality Research Group (CSRG) free Sexology Clinic, at the University Hospital of The West Indies.

Publications

Books:

1. Devonish, H. and K. Carpenter. 2020. Race, Language and the Global Jamaican. London: Palgrave McMillan. (Due: July 24, 2020).

2. Carpenter, K. (2018). Questioning Jewish Caribbean Identity. New York: Nova Science Publishers. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-53614-437-6

3. Carpenter, K. Ed., (2017). Interweaving Tapestries of Sexuality & Culture in the Caribbean. London: Palgrave McMillian. Hardcover ISBN 978-3-319-58815-5; Softcover ISBN Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-45748-8; e-book ISBN 978-3-030-45748-8.978-3-319-Devonish, H., K. Carpenter. (2007). Full Bilingual Education in a Creole Language Situation: 86481-5; e-

4. The Jamaican Bilingual Primary Education Project. Occasional Paper No. 35. Society of Caribbean Linguistics. ISSN 1726-2496. (52 pages)

Book Chapters:

1. Walters, G. K. and K. Carpenter. (2017). Gender-Role Stereotypes and Culture in Jamaica and Barbados. In K. Carpenter (Ed.), Interweaving Tapestries of Sexuality & Culture in the Caribbean (pp. 15-34). London: Palgrave McMillan. e-book ISBN 978-3-319-58816-2

2. Kaplan, D. E. and Karen Carpenter. (2014). Questioning Sexuality in Reform Caribbean Judaism: Two Perspectives. In Lisa Grushcow (Ed.), The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality. New York: CCAR Press. (pp. 645-660). ISBN 978 – 0-88123-203-5

3. Devonish, H. and K. Carpenter. (2012). Boys will be boys: Gender and language education. In Allsopp, J. & John Rickford (Eds.), Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity (pp. 161-175). Kingston: UWI Press. ISBN 978-976-8125-92-7

4. Devonish, H. and K. Carpenter. (2010). Swimming against the tide: Jamaican Creole in education. In Migge, B. et al. (Eds.), Creoles in Education: An Appraisal of Current Programs and Projects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pp. 167-181). ISBN-13: 978-9027252630

5. Carpenter, K. and H. Devonish. (2008). Race, Language and Self-Concept in Caribbean Childhoods. In Hickling, Matthies, Morgan, Gibson (Eds), Perspectives on Caribbean Psychology. University of the West Indies, Mona: CARIMENSA (pp. 602 – 629). ISBN 978-976-41-0224-3. Journal Articles

Journal Articles:

1. Yohann White, Theo Sandfort, Kai Morgan, Karen Carpenter & Russell Pierre. (2016). Family Relationships and Sexual Orientation Disclosure to Family by Gay and Bisexual Men in Jamaica. Pages 306-317 | Published online:14 Sep 2016. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19317611.2016.1227015

2. Carpenter, K., Kaplan, D. E. (2015). Non-marital Sex in Reform Judaism: Reconciling Theory with Reality. Sexuality & Culture 19 (4) (pp. 916–927). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-015-9294-1

3. James, C. C. A. B., Carpenter, K. A., Peltzer, K., & Weaver, S. (2014). Valuing psychiatric patients’ stories: Belief in and use of the supernatural in the Jamaican psychiatric setting. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(2), 247–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461513503879

4. Longman-Mills, S. K Carpenter. (2013). Interpersonal competence and sex risk behaviours among Jamaican adolescents. West Indian Medical Journal. Kingston: The University of the West Indies, 62(5), 423-426.

5.. Carpenter, K., G. Walters. (2011). A so di ting set: Sex role stereotypes in Jamaica and Barbados. Sexuality & Culture, 15(4), 345-360.

6. Carpenter, K., M. McKenzie. (2011). Love on a Continuum. Journal of Social & Economic Studies. Kingston: Sir Artur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies. 60(1), 111-136.

7. Devonish, H. and K. Carpenter. (2009). Out of Many, One Norm-Us: Linguistic and Racial Self Concept in the National Identity of Jamaican Children. Antislavery and Colonial Aesthetics. Río Piedras: Sargasso, Vol. 10,1. (pp. 93-117)

8. Carpenter, K, C. Coore, C. Devonish. (2007). Uu fieva mi, uu taak laik mi: Race, Language and Self-concept in Jamaican Elementary School Children. Caribbean Journal of Education, Kingston: The School of Education, UWI, Mona. 29(2), 181-205.

9. Devonish, H. and K. Carpenter. (2007). Towards Full Bilingualism in Education: The Jamaican Bilingual Primary Education Project. The Journal of Social and Economic Studies. Sir Arthur Lewis Kingston: Institute of Social and Economic Studies. 56(1&2). March/June, 277-303).

10. Johnson, J. and K. Carpenter. (2006). Home – School Relationships: bridging the gap. Caribbean Journal of Education. The School of Education: UWI, Mona. Vol. 28: 2. September (pp. 163-186).

11. Carpenter, K. (2003). Gender Socialisation in Jamaican Children. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, Vol 1. (pp. 23-38)

Monographs:

4. The Jamaican Bilingual Primary Education Project. Occasional Paper No. 35. Society of Caribbean Linguistics. ISSN 1726-2496. (52 pages)

Guest Editor:

1. Carpenter, K. Diverse Issues in Caribbean Sexuality. Sexuality & Culture. Volume 15. No. 4. December 2011. New York: Springer Publications.

2. Carpenter, K. Sexualities in the Caribbean. Journal of Social & Economic Studies. Kingston: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies. Volume 60. No.1, March 2011.

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