Department of Government, The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica

Department Staff

Faculty
	Dr. Jessica Byron studied at the UWI Cave Hill and St. Augustine campuses before doing her Ph.D. in International Relations at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Before coming to the Department of Government in 1994, she had lectured in The Hague and in Geneva, and had worked as a Foreign Service Officer for the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, and for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of Caribbean - European relations, Caribbean - Latin American relations, Small States in the Multilateral System and Gender and International Relations. She currently lectures GT34A International Relations of the Caribbean; GT35H Latin American Politics and Development; part of GT37M Contemporary Issues in International Relations; GT62A International Political Theories and Issues; GT62E Government and Politics in Latin America; GT62H Regionalism in a Globalized Age.
	Robert Buddan, BA (UWI), MA (UCLA), Lecturer in GT22C-Foundations of Caribbean Politics and GT22D-Politics in the Caribbean. His recent publication was The Foundation of Caribbean Politics 2001. His current research area includes constitutional reform and governance.
	Christine Cummings, BA, PhD (UWI), is a Lecturer in Political Sociology. Christine's interests centre on politics and sport with special emphasis on cricket. Her recently submitted PhD thesis is interestingly titled: "Cricket as an Element of the Superstructure".
	Sandra Grey
	Lucy Eugene, Lecturer in International Law / International Trade Law. Lucy studied at the UWI, St. Augustine and Mona campuses before completing her PhD (Law) at the University of Manchester, England. Her PhD thesis was on the WTO and the incorporation of labour standards.
	Anthony Harriott, BA, PhD UWI, is Senior Lecturer in Political Institutions and Methodology. Anthony's recent PhD thesis presented original work on the character of the Jamaican security forces.
	Suzette Haughton, PhD (King's College London); M.Sc. and B.Sc. (University of the West Indies ), is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Government. She lectures Public International Law. Her PhD thesis focused on globalisation and illicit drugs trafficking. Dr. Haughton's interest lies in the fields of Security Studies, International Relations and International Law broadly but more specifically, the multi-faceted aspects of security threats affecting the Americas and the United Kingdom . She is currently researching bilateral and multilateral diplomacy within the context of specific negotiated security agreements. Other areas of interest include: Security and International Relations, International law, Borders and Border controls and Globalisation
	Clinton Hutton, BA, PhD, UWI, is Lecturer in political philosophy and culture. Clinton's interests span Black Nationalist thought, gender studies and Jamaican political history. His PhD thesis is a study of the Ideology of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion. Clinton is also a painter and a photographer.
	Rupert Lewis, BSc Econ, MSc, PhD UWI is Professor in Political Thought. Rupert has written extensively on the work of Marcus Garvey, with special emphasis on his activities in Jamaica and the Caribbean region. His most recent publication focuses on the life and political thought of Walter Rodney. His other publication is Garvey: His Work and Impact. (Edited with Pat Bryan), Africa World Press, 1994.
	B.Sc. in International Relations and Economics (University of Wisconsin-Madison), M.A. in International Relations and International Economics (Johns Hopkins University), M.P.A. (Maxwell School at Syracuse University) and Ph.D. (expected December 2009) in Public Administration (American University). Ms. Moloney's research interests include bureaucratic politics, stakeholder theory, multilevel governance, and the intellectual history of public administration and management. Her sub-disciplinary focus is comparative public administration and international public administration. She has a particular interest in fragile/post-conflict states, the World Bank, Caribbean regional organizations, Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). Her dissertation, “Understanding the World Bank as an Organization: A Study of its Public Sector Management Policy Agenda (1983-2007)” details internal and external actor debates/influences on the World Bank's evolving public sector management (governance) policies. Ms. Moloney has worked in seven countries on four continents and travelled to many more. Besides Jamaica, she has worked in England, New Zealand, Zambia, Kenya, Peru and the United States. She enjoys incorporating her international work experiences into her academic research agenda and in her engagement with students.
	Ivan Martinez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Lecturer in International Relations.
	Jermaine McCalpin, B.Sc Hons., M.Sc (UWI), M.A, PhD ( Brown University ) is a lecturer in political science specializing in Africana political philosophy and transitional justice. Prior to returning to UWI he was adjunct Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University . His research interests include the nature and consequences of truth commissions and transitional justice for deeply divided societies, Africana political thought and praxis as well as the transformation of political institutions for social justice in Jamaica . Dr. McCalpin is currently working on a truth commission model for Jamaica . His dissertation entitled Justice Under Constraints: The Nature of Transitional Justice in Deeply Divided Societies, The Case of South Africa is currently under review. Download CV
	Dr. Dana Morris
	Lawrence Powell, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is Senior Lecturer in Methodology, with specialisations in public opinion measurement, social psychology of politics, media politics, and cross-cultural psychology. He previously taught at the University of Auckland-New Zealand, the University of Texas, and Purdue University before coming to UWI in 2001. Dr. Powell currently serves as polling director for UWI's Centre for Leadership and Governance, is the Jamaica survey director for the LAPOP polls, and is founder/director of the Cross-cultural Variations in Distributive Justice Perception (CVDJP) project--an ongoing survey of equality and social justice attitudes that has research collaborators at universities in 20 countries. Recent publications include Political Culture of Democracy in Jamaica (2009), Probing Jamaica's Political Culture (2007), and articles in International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology, Social and Economic Studies, Journal of Diplomatic Language, and Psychology and Developing Societies .
	Eris Schoburgh, BA, MSc, PhD, (UWI) is a Lecturer in Public Sector Management.
	Maziki Thame
	Diana Thorburn, B.A. (Virginia), M.Sc. (UWI), Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) is a lecturer in International Relations. Her areas of interest, besides Caribbean international relations in general, are: US foreign policy, foreign banks in developing countries, and gender and development. Most recently she has been doing research on religion and foreign policy. Dr. Thorburn has published articles in edited collections, academic and scholarly journals and magazines such as NACLA Report on the Americas, Feminist Review, and Pensamiento Proprio , among others. She received her doctorate in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Thorburn is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French and is a director on the boards of a variety of educational foundations and charities.
	Lisa Vasciannie, BSc, MSc (UWI) is an Assistant Lecturer in International Relations. She is currently working on her PhD. Thesis on Election Observation in the Caribbean. She has a recent publication entitled "Election Observation: The Case of the December 1997 Elections in Jamaica". For academic year 2001/2002 she was a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University.
	Lloyd Waller is a Lecturer in Methodology at the University of the West Indies , Mona-Jamaica. Lloyd Waller holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, with a specialization in Information and Communication for Development and Advanced Research Methods. His thesis entitled “ICT for Whose Development: Towards the development of methodologies and analytical tools for understanding and explaining the ICT for Development Phenomenon” attempts to develop advanced methodological tools for studying the ICT for Development Phenomenon. Dr. Waller also holds a BSc in International Relations, an MSc Sociology of Development both from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica . Dr. Waller specializes in the development, advancement and use of relevant research methodologies, methods and analytical tools to integrate technology, business, government and society for the purpose of development. His primary areas of research are (1) Advanced Research Methodologies and (2) Development Studies - with a special emphasis on corruption, electronic governance, as well as information and communication technologies in foreign trade and development. His secondary areas of research include: Project Management; Small Business Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management. Dr. Waller is the Strategic Polling and Survey Manager in the Research Unit of the Centre for Leadership and Governance as well as the Logistic Survey Manager for the Boxill Polls. His new book The role of Discourse in ICT for Development:: Lessons from Jamaica looks at how representations of ICT for Development can impact livelihood development outcomes.
The Department is also assisted by a number of part-time staff including the following: Mr. Ansord Hewitt Dr. Cezley Sampson Dr. Allan Kirton Ms. Gladys Young Winston Anderson Lorraine Patterson Richard Crawford (not an Asst. Lec) Michele Lowe Dave Gosse Nicola Satchell Nicosia Shakes Maurice Tomlinson