Expertise
  • Intersections of Atlantic slavery, particularly the rise of slavery in the age of abolition, the second slavery in Cuba, Brazil, and the USA with the persistence of ethnic divisions and marginalization of the descendants of slaves in the African Diaspora of the Caribbean and the Americas. Member of the International Research Seminar on the Second Slavery -This network brings together a growing number of international researchers (approximately 36) whose academic interest and research intersects with the Second Slavery.
  • Research the connection between land control, land use, and land ownership with marginalization of most of the working people in post-colonial societies.
  • Currently thinking about and making sense of the factors producing large-scale change in farming patterns, especially in the Guyana Shield and the Amazon-and the environmental/ecological impact of these developments on the planet.
  • Involved in transnational discourses on the importance of “brain gain,” as a means of addressing the effect of “brain drain,” on poor countries.
Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indiana University East

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indiana University East

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indiana University East

Communities
Sociology, Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, State University of New York at Binghamton, Sociology, 2008
MA, State University of New York at Binghamton, Sociology, 2003
BS, University of Guyana, Communication, 1997