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“One of my favourite memories is in Guyana after receiving the CARICOM Award for Women. I had a telephone call from a Guyanese man who had written to me when he was imprisoned in Trinidad, asking for assistance with his poetry. I approached Dr. Paula Morgan who read the poems and wrote comments. Years later, he called and read a poem he had written for me in honour of the occasion. I would like my legacy to include new generations of Caribbean citizens with a commitment to social transformation and justice. I have benefited from many years of education paid for by taxpayers of the region. I feel that some of us need to stay in the region to build our institutions. It is up to us to make these spaces where we want to live.”

Professor Rhoda Reddock

PROFESSOR AND HEAD
CENTRE FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
ST. AUGUSTINE CAMPUS, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Tel: (868) 662-2002 exts 3573/2533 • Email: Rhoda.Reddock@sta.uwi.edu

PROFILE

Rhoda Reddock is Professor of Gender and Development and Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the St. Augustine campus. She holds a BSc Social Administration (UWI St. Augustine and Mona, 1975); a Masters of Development Studies (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 1980) and a Doctorate, Social Sciences (Applied Sociology) from the University of Amsterdam (1984). Her academic career began as Lecturer, Cipriani Labour College and Associate Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Her UWI career began as Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research, UWI St. Augustine campus in 1985, and then Lecturer in the Department of Sociology in 1990. She was actively involved in the process leading up to the institutionalisation of gender studies at UWI and assumed her current position in 1994. Her publications include seven books (two award-winning), three monographs, four special journal issues and over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Her awards include the UWI Vice Chancellor’s Award for All-Round Excellence in Teaching and Administration, Research and Public Service in 2001, the Seventh CARICOM Triennial Award for Women in 2002 and the US Department of State International Woman of Courage Award 2008.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Professor Reddock’s research has been interdisciplinary and reflects the commitment to multi-disciplinary collaboration with colleagues. This is in keeping with the mandate of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies to integrate gender analysis into mainstream scholarship. A concern with social justice has been a core theme in her work. Her first academic publication, “Prison Education in Jamaica” published in 1976, was the result of a year-long undergraduate research exercise in two Jamaican prisons. Her focus then shifted to work, labour and women’s social and political history as reflected in her master’s and doctoral research. Since then her research output has revolved around the following themes–gender, ethnicity and nationalism, masculinities, sexualities, women and social movements and environmental studies.