Contributors
- Contributors
M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of a number of path-breaking essays, the co-editor (with Chandra Mohanty) of Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (1997), and the author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred (2005). She is currently at work on two projects: one that continues writing the life of Kitsimba (the character she develops in Pedagogies); the other examines the effects of globalization on the spiritual practices of Indigenous and African women and women of African descent.
Nicole Awai is a Trinidadian multi-media artist who lives and works in New York City. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in multi-media art at the University of South Florida in 1996 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency in 1997. She was artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (1999–2000) and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in 2004. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at PS1 Contemporary Art Institute, the Queens Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Salvador Dali Museum, the Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art in Savona, Italy, and at the Artist Commune in Hong Kong. She was the featured artist in the Initial Public Offering series at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2005. Her work will be included in the exhibition Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art at the Brooklyn Museum from 31 August 2007 through January 2008.
Winnifred Brown-Glaude is an assistant professor in Africana studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Dis/orderly Women: Bodies, Public Space and Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica” that examines the experiences of Jamaican higglers in the informal economy of Kingston. Her edited volume, Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Share Strategies and Challenges (forthcoming, Rutgers University Press), examines how faculty members at North American universities confront racial and gender inequities on their campuses.
Myriam J.A. Chancy is a Haitian-born Canadian writer. Her first novel, Spirit of Haiti (2003), was a finalist in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region of the Commonwealth Prize 2004, and her second, The Scorpion’s Claw was released in 2005. She is also the author of two books of literary criticism, Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (1997); and Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (1997), [End Page 167] which was awarded an Outstanding Academic Book Award 1998 by Choice, the journal of the American Library Association. She is a former editor-in-chief of the journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. She has taught at Arizona State University, Smith College, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and will join the English department at Louisiana State University in Fall 2007.
Robert A. Hill has been a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1977, before which he taught at Dartmouth College and Northwestern University. He moved to America from Jamaica in 1971 and was a senior fellow at the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta. He is the editor-in-chief of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers (1983–), ten volumes of which have been published thus far by the University of California Press. He served as executive consultant in the making of the PBS-WGBH documentary film, “Look for Me in the Whirlwind: Marcus Garvey,” for the American Experience series in 2001. He is also the editor of numerous historical editions, among them Marcus Garvey’s Black Man, Cyril Briggs’ Crusader, The FBI’s RACON, and George S. Schuyler’s Black Empire and Ethiopian Stories. He is the literary executor of the C.L.R. James Estate. In October 1992, he was awarded the Gold Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica for Distinguished Contribution to History.
Alanna Lockward has been interacting with a variety of artistic initiatives since the mid 1980s. As a performing artist and promoter of the visual arts community of Guadalajara, Mexico, she...
