Juanita De Barros, McMaster University

Assistant Professor History Hamilton, Ontario debar@mcmaster.ca Office: (905) 525-9140 ext. 24149

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Atlantic history Caribbean history Health care workers in post-slavery British Caribbean Post-slavery British Guiana Post-slavery Georgetown Public health history

Bio/Research

Juanita De Barros teaches Caribbean and African diasporic history at McMaster University. She is affiliated with the History of Health and Medicine Unit at McMaster and with the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. She is also an associate fellow with the Centre for Research in Latin America and the Caribbean at York University and is associated with the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University. She is currently president of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her research concentrates on the 19th and 20th century Caribbean, the Africa diaspora, and the social history of health and medicine. She has published articles in the Journal of Caribbean History, Caribbean Quarterly, the Journal of British Studies, Slavery and Abolition, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and the Journal of the Social History of Medicine. Her most recent book (co-edited with David Wright and Steven Palmer), Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968, (Routledge, 2009), examines some of the social and cultural tensions over medical power and medical professionalization in the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and British Caribbean. She is currently working on a book that examines colonial health policies and the emergence of a British Caribbean medical profession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as a series of articles on infant welfare work in the British Caribbean.

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