Events

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 12-2pm

Juanita De Barros is an assistant professor in the Department of History at McMaster University where she teaches Atlantic, Caribbean, and African diasporic history. Her research focuses on the post-emancipation Anglophone Caribbean, particularly urban history, popular protest, and the history of health and health workers. She has published a monograph (Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924, McGill-Queens UP, 2002) as well as numerous book chapters and articles in The Journal of Caribbean History, Caribbean Quarterly, Slavery and Abolition, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, The Journal of British Studies, and The Social History of Medicine. She has co-edited a special issue of Caribbean Quarterly that focuses on the history of public health in the Caribbean (Colonialism and Health in the Tropics) and a collection of essays on recent Caribbean historiography (Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History, 2006, Marcus Weiner Publishers). She is currently co-editing a book of articles on health in the Caribbean (under contract with Routledge, titled A History of Health and Medicine in the Caribbean). She was recently awarded a SSHRC grant for her most recent research project, titled “West Indians, Medicine, and Diaspora in the Atlantic World.” She is also an editor for h-Caribbean.

~ Latin American Studies Luncheon Series

Please register online at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=4480 by 9am on Monday, March 24.