The University of the West Indies, (UWI) Mona is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Patsy Lewis, Senior Fellow in the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) to the rank of Professor.
 
Patsy Lewis holds the Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications, with first class honours, and the Diploma in Public Administration from The University of the West Indies, Mona as well as the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in International Relations and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in History from Trinity College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
 
She joined the staff of The UWI, Mona in 1997 as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences. She was later named Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), obtained tenure in 2004 and was promoted to Senior Fellow in 2006.
 
Professor Lewis has developed a reputation locally and internationally for producing high quality work in research and teaching primarily through her inter-disciplinary focus on development challenges in small states, particularly in the Caribbean region. She has a distinctive record of active and on-going research, much of it focused on regional integration processes in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) particularly the utility of regional organisations in shoring up the sovereignty of their members and their viability in a changed global context.  Her work has further examined their engagement with the global political economy. These include the social and economic effects of trade liberalization under the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the banana dependent economies of the Windward Islands; the move in the direction of the liberalization of trade between developing and developed countries specifically the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations and the Cariforum/European Community Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as well as the effects of the global financial crisis on these integration movements and the social conditions of their constituent populations.
 
 
Professor Lewis is author of Surviving Small Size: Regional Integration in Caribbean Ministates, which received the Principal’s Award for Best Publication; an edited collection (special issue of Social and Economic Studies – The Caribbean and Pacific in a New World Order) the monograph, Social Policy Challenges in Grenada, 20 journal articles and book chapters and has served as co-editor of the monograph Ethnic Minorities and Access to Higher Education.  She has received a number of awards including the Baroness Amos Fellowship, Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick in 2010 and a Rockefeller Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at the Center of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, 1996-1997.
 
Professor Lewis has demonstrated scholarly leadership in several areas.  She has been programme coordinator for the MSc Governance and Public Policy programme and is currently the coordinator of the MPhil/PhD programme. She developed courses in Global Governance, Integration Policies and Practices and Small States in the Global Political Economy,  as part of the Governance and Public Policy concentration in the Master of Science degree programme at SALISES. She was also the main developer of the courses The Global Political Economy and Small States’ Development: Challenges and Opportunities in SALISES’ new MSC in Development Studies. She was also joint coordinator of the SALISES Seminar Series and was one of the organisers of SALISES’ 50/50 2012 conferences, Critical Reflections in a Time of Uncertainty and Law and Justice in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Post-Independence Experience. She leads two research clusters at SALISES on regional integration and Grenada. She was the main coordinator of the October 2013 conference Rethinking Regionalism: Beyond the CARICOM Integration Project.
 
Patsy Lewis has  been active in university and public service,  engaging in The UWI’s Strategic Planning Process as a Member of the Mona Planning Task Force, leading the drafting of the Strategic Enabling Area ‘Strengthening National Engagement and as a member of UWI’s Change Challenge Leaders programme and chair of the sub-group on National/Regional engagement. She has been a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of the University Hospital of the West Indies and has also been the UHWI representative on the board of trustees for the superannuation scheme for several years.
 
Professor Lewis is a Member of the Caribbean Studies Association, a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society, Member of the Editorial Board for IDEAZ, an interdisciplinary social science and humanities journal, and a Member of the Editorial council of the journal Revista Brasileira do Caribe, (Brazilian Review of the Caribbean).