Professor Emerita Maureen Warner-Lewis is the winner of the internationally acclaimed Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis 2008 award for her recently published book, Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, recently published by the University of the West Indies Press. The award was announced at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association meeting, San Andres, Colombia. The selection was made from thirty-nine nominees from sixteen different international publishers.

The citation for the winning book, Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, noted that “for its sheer depth and breadth, this study is impressive, embracing as it does archival and oral history work in Jamaica, Nigeria and Scotland. The book renders Monteath’s life functions as a paradigm for examining how ancestral mores and memory can shape and sharpen our understanding of human relations in a foundational period of Caribbean history and is a model of scholarship to be followed across the Caribbean.”

Professor Warner-Lewis has received several international, regional and national book awards and is known worldwide for her comprehensive and authoritative research. This latest book by Warner-Lewis “provides a detailed understanding of the plight of Africans in Jamaica and their noble struggle to reclaim their identity and transcend the iniquities of enslavement in the early 19th century. Warner-Lewis explored Moravian.” CHOICE, August 2008(Reprinted with permission from CHOICE. Copyright by the American Library Association) http://www.cro2.org