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Eudine Barriteau
Violet Eudine Barriteau
Born (1954-12-10) 10 December 1954 (age 69)
Grenada
NationalityGrenadian
Academic career
FieldGender and development
InstitutionUniversity of the West Indies at Cave Hill
Alma materHoward University, Washington DC
AwardsGCM
Development economics
Economies by region
Economic growth theories
Fields and subfields
Lists

Professor the Most Honourable Violet Eudine Barriteau (10 December 1954),[1] GCM is a professor of gender and public policy, as well as Principal of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. She was also the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2009 to 2010,[2] and she is on the advisory editorial boards of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, published by SUNY Press,[3] and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, published by University of Chicago Press.[4]

Her research interests encompass feminist theorizing, gender and public policy, investigations of the Caribbean political economy, and theorizing heterosexual women's socio-sexual unions.[5]

Early life

Violet Eudine Barriteau was born 10 December 1954, in the Caribbean island of Grenada and migrated to Barbados in 1966. She attended Ellerslie Secondary School.[1]

Education

Eudine Barriteau gained her teacher training certificate from Erdiston Teachers' Training College,[1] and her degree in public administration and accounting in 1980 from University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados. She later studied at the New York University, New York and qualified for her masters in public administration (public sector financial management) in 1984. Barriteau travelled to the Philippines, to the International Rice Research Institute for a certificate in editing and publications training which she completed in 1986. Finally she returned to America for her PhD in political science, her specialization being political economy and political theory, she gained her doctorate from Howard University, Washington, D.C. in 1994.[6]

Career

Honours

  • 2004 Best Selling Textbook award, University of the West Indies Press,[8] for her book Confronting power, theorizing gender interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean.[9][page needed]
  • 2011 Tenth CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, for her outstanding contribution to gender and development and the socio-economic development of the Caribbean Community. Awarded at the opening ceremony of the Thirty-Second Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat.[10]
  • 2013 Gold Crown Merit, for her contribution to gender and development.[11]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Barriteau, Eudine; Emmanuel, Patrick; Brathwaite, Farley (1986). Political change and public opinion in Grenada: 1979–1984. West Indies: University of the West Indies (original from University of Texas).
  • Barriteau, Eudine; Connelly, M. Patricia; Parpart, Jane L (2000). Theoretical perspectives on gender and development. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC). ISBN 9780889369108.
  • Barriteau, Eudine (2001). The political economy of gender in the twentieth-century Caribbean. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave. ISBN 9780333732823.
  • Barriteau, Eudine; Cobley, Alan G (2001). Stronger, surer, bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow: social change and international development. Barbados: Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Cave Hill and University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401016. See also Nita Barrow.
  • Barriteau, Eudine (2003). Confronting power, theorizing gender interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica Great Britain: University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401368.
  • Barriteau, Eudine; Cobley, Alan G (2006). Enjoying power: Eugenia Charles and political leadership in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401917.
  • Barriteau, Eudine (2012). Love and power: Caribbean discourses on gender. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press Cave Hill, Barbados Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Nita Barrow Unit. ISBN 9789766402655.

Journal articles

Personal life

Eudine Barriteau has a son, Cabral.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "FACES of ordinary Barbadian women doing extraordinary things, Professor Violet Eudine Barriteau, GCM". Archived from the original on 2013-07-10. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Past presidents". International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International - journal information, editorial boards". Project MUSE, State University of New York (SUNY) Press. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  4. ^ a b "University of Chicago Press Journals: Signs - Editorial Board, International Advisory Board". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Office of the Deputy Principal, The Deputy Principal: Professor V Eudine Barriteau". The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Curriculum vitae, Violet Eudine Barriteau, PhD" (PDF). The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  7. ^ Best, Tony (20 February 2015). "HISTORIC: Professor Eudine Barriteau is the first woman to lead the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies". St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies: Nation News. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Eudine Barriteau". The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  9. ^ Barriteau, Eudine (2003). Confronting power, theorizing gender interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica Great Britain: University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 9789766401368.
  10. ^ "Press Release 258/2011". Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. 4 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2014-04-28. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  11. ^ Joseph, Emmanuel (30 November 2013). "Sirs Alike". Barbados Today. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
Non-profit organisation positions
Preceded by President of the International Association for Feminist Economics
2009–2010 		Succeeded by
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