Contributors

• Author: Brian Meeks/Kate Quinn
• Profession: Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Brown University/Lecturer in Caribbean History at the UCL Institute of the Americas whose work takes a regional and comparative approach to the Caribbean that bridges the Anglophone and the Hispanic parts of the region
• Pages: 199-200

Cynthia Barrow-Giles is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University

of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Her most recent book, Women in Caribbean

Politics, was published in 2010.

Bruce Golding served as the eigth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 2007–

2011. A former Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), he left it in

1995 to lead the National Democratic Movement (NDM) until his return

to the JLP in 2002.

Ralph Gonsalves has been the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the

Grenadines since March 29, 2001. He obtained undergraduate and

postgraduate degrees from the University of the West Indies, Mona,

and a PhD in Government from the University of Manchester, United

Kingdom. He was a university lecturer and a practising lawyer in the

Caribbean before becoming Prime Minister.

Clifford E. Griffin is Associate Professor of Political Science at North

Carolina State University, who has published widely on democracy,

political economy and security in the Caribbean. He is the co-author of

the forthcoming Historical Dictionary of US-Caribbean Relations, 1st ed.

(Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).

Percy C. Hintzen is Professor in the Department of Global and Sociocultural

Studies and Director of the Africa and African Diaspora Studies Program

at Florida International University, and Professor Emeritus at the

University of California, Berkeley. He earned his PhD in Comparative

Political Sociology from Yale University. His research and publications

examine relationships among modernity, political economy, and the

production of difference. His primary fields of enquiry are postcolonial

studies, globalization, and development.

Derek O’Brien is Reader in Public Law at Oxford Brookes University. His

most recent book is The Constitutional Systems of the Caribbean (2014).

Tennyson S.D. Joseph is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Head of

the Department of Government, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology

Contributors