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Deborah A. Thomas D.Thomas
Deborah A. Thomas (Ph.D. New York University 2000) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica (Duke University Press, 2004), focused on the changing relationships among the political and cultural dimensions of nationalism, globalization, and popular culture. Thomas also co-edited the volume Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (Duke University Press, 2006) with Kamari Clarke, and a special issue of the journal Identities titled “Caribbeanist Anthropologies at the Crossroads” with Karla Slocum. She has also been collaborating for the past several years with Tina Campt on “Diasporic Hegemonies,” a project that is designed to bring transnational feminist theorizing into more extended dialogue with research on the African Diaspora. Thomas is currently working on two research projects of her own. The first explores the effects of a contract labor program developed by the Jamaican Ministry of Labour that sponsors the seasonal migration of Jamaican women for work in hotels throughout the United States. The second investigates the unprecedented eruption of gang violence in the Jamaican community where she has conducted research since 1996 and examines how this violence is related to broader patterns of violence in and beyond Jamaica. Prior to her life as an academic, she was a professional dancer with the New York-based Urban Bush Women. She was also a Program Director with the National Council for Research on Women, an international working alliance of women's research and policy centers whose mission is to enhance the connections among research, policy analysis, advocacy, and innovative programming on behalf of women and girls.
Pat Saunders P.Saunders

Pat Saunders Below is a brief biographical sketch: My research and scholarship focus largely on the relationship between sexual identity and national identity in Caribbean literature and popular culture. My work has appeared in The Bucknell Review, Calabash, Plantation Society in the Americas, The Journal of West Indian Literature and Small Axe. Her book, titled Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature was recently published by Lexington Books. This book traces the emergence of literary nationalisms in the Anglophone Caribbean region while mapping these transformations through discourses of exile, national and sexual identity, and diaspora race politics in a number of cultural and political contexts: pre-independence Trinidad, post-independence Britain, the Civil rights era in the United States and most recently in relation to Louisiana and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. I have been a lifetime member of th Caribbean Studies Association since 2002 and has been actively involved in the association since joining, encouraging graduate students in the humanities to attend the CSA conferences.
Samuel Fure Davis S.Davis
SAMUEL FURE DAVIS (PhD) MA in Caribbean Interdisciplinary Studies in the University of Havana (1997) and Doctorate in Arts Sciences, (2006). He taught Spanish language and translation at the University of Ghana for two years (1989-92) before his current position as an assistant professor at the English Department of the School of Foreign Languages, University of Havana, where he teaches Anglo-Caribbean literature, English language (writing skills), and other undergraduate and graduate courses on cultural theory. He published a prize-winning essay titled Cantos de Resistencia (Letras Cubanas, Habana, 2000) about dub poetry and reggae lyrics. He completed a PhD degree in the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana with a dissertation entitled Rastafari: una tendencia (sub-) cultural alternativa (Rastafari: an alternative (sub-) cultural tendency) using cultural studies to focus on Rasta ideology, local reggae lyrics, and other aspects to redefine this culture in Cuba. Prof. Furé Davis has been an active member of the Caribbean Studies Association for the last ten years and is also a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Latin American branch). He has written various articles and papers about Rastafari, reggae, Cuban racial issues, and literature; his publications have appeared in Cuba, the Caribbean and Europe.
Margaret Elisabeth Shrimpton Masson M.Shrimpton

Margaret Shrimpton (Maggie)
Head Latin American Literature Programme/Coordinadora de la Licenciatura en Literatura Latinoamericana,
Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Mérida, Mexico
maggieshrimpton@yahoo.com.mx


Margaret Shrimpton, nació en Cambridge, Inglaterra y vive en Mérida, Yucatán (México) desde 1989. Estudió letras inglesas y español en Leeds, Inglaterra y la maestría en Estudios Latinoamericanos en Cambridge University. Es doctora en Ciencias Filológicas por la Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. Es profesora-investigadora de la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán y Coordinadora de la Licenciatura de Literatura Latinoamericana desde donde promueve los estudios caribeños. Su investigación aborda la literatura caribeña y los procesos identitarios en la región, con un interés particular en las dinámicas del Caribe continental y su integración al Caribe insular. Forma parte del Comité Interno de la Revista Mexicana del Caribe, como editora en Lengua Inglesa, desde 1998 hasta el presente. Sus publicaciones recientes incluyen el libro: Tejiendo historias en el Caribe. La narrativa yucateca contemporánea (2006); Miradas a la literatura latinoamericana (ed), Fac. Ciencias Antropológicas, UADY, 2007; y diversos artículos en revistas nacionales e internacionales. Ha participado en los congresos de CSA Mérida 1994, Baranquilla 1997, Panama 1999, y continuamente desde 2004. En 2007 participó como jurado en el Gordon K. Lewis Book Award.

Margaret Shrimpton was born in Cambridge (UK) and since 1989 lives in Mérida, Yucatán (México). She graduated in English and Spanish in Leeds, UK, and in the M.Phil in Latin American Studies at Cambridge University. She has a PhD from the University of Havana, Cuba. She is associate professor in the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, and currently heads the degree Program in Latin American Literature, where she can actively promote and encourage Caribbean studies. Her research covers Caribbean literature and identity processes in the region, with a particular interest in the dynamics of the Mainland Caribbean area and its articulation with the island Caribbean. Since 1998 she is the English language editor on the internal editorial committee of Revista Mexicana del Caribe. Her recent publications include: Tejiendo historias en el Caribe. La narrativa yucateca contemporánea, Editorial Arte y Literatura/Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, (2006); Miradas a la literatura latinoamericana (ed), Fac. Ciencias Antropológicas, UADY, 2007; and articles in national and international journals. She has attended CSA conferences Mérida 1994, Baranquilla 1997, Panamá 1999 and from 2004 onwards. In 2007 she was a member of the CSA award committee on the Gordon K. Lewis Book Award.
Dr. Nara Arraujo Carruana Dr. Nara Arraujo Carruana

Dr. Nara Arraujo Carruana

Dra. Nara Arraujo Carruana, profesora titular de la Facultad de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de La Habana, quien tambien se ha desempeñado como docente en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México, es miembro de la Academia Cubana de la Lengua y sin duda alguna,  una de las caribeñistas mas reconocidas en nuestro pais.

Ha impartido cursos, conferencias, y realizado estancia de investigacion en diferentes universidades, destacándose entre otras: la Universidad de La Sorbona, Paris; Universidad Internacional de La Florida; en la West Indies University (campus Mona); Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro en Brasil; las universidades de Warwick y de Cambridge en Inglaterra y la Universidad Lomonósov de Moscu, casa de estudios esta, en la que obtuvo en 1984 su Doctorado en Ciencias Filológicas.

Ha estado vinculada a la CSA desde 1992 participando en sus reuniones anuales cuando ha sido posible obtener los fondos para asistir. En la Cátedra de Estudios del Caribe de la Universidad de La Habana se ha destacado activamente en el diseño de la Maestría en Estudios Caribeños, particularmente en el tema de mujeres narradoras caribeñas.

Linden Lewis

Linden Lewis was born in Georgetown, Guyana and grew up in Barbados. He holds a Second Class Honors degree in Economics and Sociology from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Barbados. He also holds a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Sociology, from The American University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lewis is currently a Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University, where he has taught since 1991. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University. Prof. Lewis has also served as the Co-Director of the then Race/Gender Resource Center [now the Center for Race, Ethnicity and Gender] at Bucknell. He has published widely on such subjects as race, masculinity, labor and globalization. His articles have appeared in Race and Class, Caribbean Quarterly, Caribbean Studies, Feminist Review, The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Beyond Law, Transition, and 21st Century Policy Review. His work also appears as chapters in many Caribbean anthologies. Prof. Lewis has edited The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean (University Press of Florida, 2003), and has recently co-edited with Glyne Griffith Color, Hair, and Bone: Race in the Twenty-first Century (Bucknell University Press, 2008). He is currently completing two manuscripts Caribbean Masculinity Unplugged, and Caribbean Musings: Essays on Culture, Gender and Labor. Prof. Lewis has served as a consultant for the Division of Gender Affairs, Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs, Government of Trinidad and Tobago, The Commonwealth Secretariat, The United Nations International Children Educational Fund, and The Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization. He has also served as an member of the Expert Group of United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women on ‘The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality’, a draft of which has been adopted by all U.N. organizations. Prof. Lewis currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board of The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies.