Patricia Mohammed is author of 'Gender Politics and Global Democracy: Insights from the Caribbean'

Patricia is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies and Campus Coordinator, School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She was the first head of the Mona Unit, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Jamaica and has served as Acting Head of this Centre in St Augustine. She was Visiting Professor at SUNY, Albany in 2007 and founder and current executive editor of the online open access journal Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She was elected President of the Caribbean Studies Association for the academic year 2008/9.

Her publications include Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad, 1917 – 1947, (Palgrave UK, 2001) and Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, (ed) (University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 2002). Among her achievements in feminism has been the distinction of serving as the first Coordinator of the Rape Crisis Centre in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and consultant in the preparation of three National gender policies in the region-  Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica.

Her manuscript entitled Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation is now in press at Macmillan/UK. She is currently engaged in making the fifth installment in a documentary film series entitled “A Different Imagination” and has completed a 40 minutes documentary entitled Engendering Change: Caribbean Configurations.

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