Professor of Sociology (1972)

Degrees: BA, PhD University of Hull 1966, 1976; MA McMaster University 1967

Teaching Experience: University of the West Indies, Jamaica 1968-71

Teaching Specialties: Caribbean social and cultural organizations, colonialism and development, slavery and emancipation in the Americas

Research Interests/Related Travel: Labor movements in the West Indies, slavery, colonialism and development, labor and class systems / United Kingdom, Thailand, Jamaica, Belize, Trinidad, Cuba, Mexico, Sweden, Middle East, Barbados, Guyana, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Bahamas, Curacao

Publications: Struggles for Freedom: Essays on Slavery, Colonialism and Culture in the Caribbean and Central America (Angelus Press, 1997), On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39 (Ian Randle, 1995), Colonialism and Resistance in Belize: Essays in Historical Sociology (Cubola, 1988), Belize: A New Nation in Central America (Westview Press, 1986), The Formation of a Colonial Society: Belize, From Conquest to Crown Colony (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977); coauthor, Land in Belize, 1765-1871: The Origins of Land Tenure, Use and Distribution in a Dependent Economy (Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1977); numerous articles in professional journals such as America Indigena, Slavery and Abolition, Ethnohistory, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and International Journal of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies

Distinctions: NEH Summer Fellowship 1982, 1993; member, Executive Committee of the Society for Caribbean Studies; NEH Fellowship 1994

International Affiliations and Experience: Caribbean Studies Association; Society for Caribbean Studies; Association of Caribbean Historians