Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Ph.D.

Winnifred Brown-Glaude earned her PhD at Temple University in the department of Sociology.   Her primary fields of research include 1) Race, Gender and Informal Economies, 2) Intersectionality, 3) Gender and Development and 4) Feminist Research Methods.  Her current research activities involve examining the impact of race/color, class and gender on the experiences of female micro-entrepreneurs in the Jamaican urban informal economy.  Her current book project is entitled Dis/orderly Women: Bodies, Public Space and Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica.  She is the editor of a forthcoming collection of essays entitled “Doing Diversity in Higher Education:  Faculty Share Strategies and Challenges” (Rutgers University Press, 2008).  Two of her recent publications include “Fact of Blackness? The Problem of the Bleached Body in Contemporary Jamaica.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Platform for Criticism 24 (2007), pp 34-51 and “Size Matters: Figuring Gender in the Black Jamaican Nation.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7.1 (2006): 38-68.