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President
Violet Eudine Barriteau
University of the West Indies
Cave Hill, Barbados
Violet Eudine Barriteau is a Professor of Gender and Public Policy and is a Grenadian born, Caribbean feminist, scholar and activist with considerable experience in research, administration and development and delivery of workshops and training modules in gender and development issues.
Professor Barriteau is the author of The Political Economy of Gender in the Twentieth Century Caribbean published by Palgrave International, and won the University of the West Indies inaugural best selling text book prize for the edited work Confronting Power Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean. She has co-edited three other publications as well as published eighteen chapters in books and ten articles in peer reviewed journals.
For fifteen years Professor Barriteau has been the first Head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit and the first woman at the University of the West Indies to be appointed Campus Coordinator, School for Graduate Studies and Research. This is a position she held for four years until becoming the second woman to be appointed Deputy Principal at the Cave Hill Campus.
Professor Barriteau’s research interests encompass feminist theorizing, gender and public policy and investigations of the Caribbean political economy from the perspective of gender.
Professor Barriteau is currently President Elect of the International Association for Feminist Economics.
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