UWI appoints new director for gender and development studies
VERENE A Shepherd, professor of social history at the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI), is the new university director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), with oversight responsibility for the Mona, Cave Hill and St Augustine Units of the IGDS. Professor Shepherd will assume her new position on August 1.
She succeeds Professor Barbara Bailey, who headed the IGDS for the past 14 years.
Professor Shepherd has had a long history with the IGDS. She was one of the founding members of the Women and Development Studies Group, which assisted in the institutionalisation of the IGDS and also served from 1996 to 1998 on the Gender and Development Studies Board as the representative of the Faculty of Arts and Education (now Humanities and Education) where she initiated the idea of the Lucille Mathurin-Mair lecture series. Professor Shepherd also taught courses on women and gender in Caribbean history and supervised graduate theses at both the Master's and Doctoral levels on women and gender....
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She succeeds Professor Barbara Bailey, who headed the IGDS for the past 14 years.
Professor Shepherd has had a long history with the IGDS. She was one of the founding members of the Women and Development Studies Group, which assisted in the institutionalisation of the IGDS and also served from 1996 to 1998 on the Gender and Development Studies Board as the representative of the Faculty of Arts and Education (now Humanities and Education) where she initiated the idea of the Lucille Mathurin-Mair lecture series. Professor Shepherd also taught courses on women and gender in Caribbean history and supervised graduate theses at both the Master's and Doctoral levels on women and gender....