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Dr. Lomarsh Roopnarine

1400 J R Lynch Street

History & Philosophy Department

College of Liberal Arts

Jackson State University

Jackson, MS, 39217

601-979-2494 (work)

lomarsh.roopnarine@jsums.edu

 

Education

Ph.D.: University at Albany, State University of New York, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, May 2002

 

Academic Career

 Professor of Caribbean & Latin American Studies at Jackson State University

 

Editorial/Advisory Board

  • University Press of Mississippi
  • Caribbean Writer (2016-2020)
  • International Journal of Women’s Studies
  • Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies
  • South Asian Diaspora
  • Indenture Papers
  • Journal of Ethnicities
  • Journal of Labor History
  • Open Journal of Women’s Studies
  • Global Girmit Institute (Fiji)
  • Indenture Labor Route

 

Reviewer

  • Grant Applications for the National Endowment of Humanities (Program Officer) 2016, 2018
  • Oxford University Press (manuscript)
  • External Reviewer for a dissertation from the Acharya Nagarjuna University (India)
  • External Reviewer for a dissertation from University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
  • External Reviewer for the University of the West Indies on a faculty promotion
  • Routledge (book proposal)
  • Palgrave (book proposal)
  • Book Reviewer for the American Journal of Indic Studies
  • Geographical Journal
  • Journal of Economic History Review
  • Journal of American Historical Review
  • Journal of Studies in Travel Writing
  • Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
  • Journal of Sage Open
  • Journal of Ethnicities
  • Journal of Social and Economic Studies
  • Journal of Labor History
  • Journal of South Asian Diaspora (5 times)
  • Journal of Latin American & Ethnic Studies
  • Journal of Small Axe
  • Journal of Caribbean Quarterly (4 times)
  • International Journal of Women’s Studies (4 times)
  • Journal of Caribbean Writer
  • Journal of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

 

Research Interests

  • Caribbean migration, ethnicity and identity

 

Courses Taught

Jackson State University (2012 –   )

  • Graduate course: The History the Caribbean 530 (also online)
  • World Civilization 101 HISTORICAL (also online)
  • World Civilization 102 MODERN (also online)
  • History of Colonial Latin America 327
  • History of Modern Latin America 328
  • History of the Caribbean 329
  • Historiography 344
  • Seminar 447

 

University of the Virgin Islands (2002-2012)

  • Introduction to the Social Sciences 100
  • Introduction to Sociology 121
  • World History or World Civilization 181 (also on Blackboard)
  • World History or World Civilization 182 (also on Blackboard)
  • Physical & Cultural Anthropology 225
  • History of the United States 320 (also on Blackboard)
  • Virgin Islands History 342
  • Caribbean History 341 (also on Blackboard)
  • US-Caribbean Relations 330
  • Latin America 350 (also on Blackboard)

 

Skidmore College (2006-2007)

  • Colonial Latin America 108
  • Modern Latin America 109
  • US-Caribbean Relations 217
  • Caribbean Revolutions 217
  • Colonial Caribbean 330
  • Modern Caribbean 331

 

State University of New York at Albany (2000-2002)

  • Introduction to Latin America 100
  • The Caribbean: People, History, and Culture 269
  • Latin America: Culture & Society 502 (co-taught this graduate class with former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dr. Carlos Santiago)

 

 

 

Book Publications

 

  1. Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018.

 

  1. Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.

 

  1. Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2007.

 

 

Edited Books

 

  1. Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Indian Indenture and Migration, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Rachel Kurian, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Ashutosh Kumar. Manohar Publishers & Distributors (Forthcoming)

 

  1. Nationalism, Transnationalism and Identity in the Age of Post-Slavery Indenture and Migration, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Kalpana Hiralal, Cristiana Bastos and Lomarsh Roopnarine, Manohar Publishers & Distributors (Forthcoming)

 

 

  1. The Legacy of Indian Indenture: Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Migration and Diaspora. Maurits Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Hans Ramsoedh (Eds), New Delhi: Manohar Publisher & Distributors, 2016.

 

  1. Social and Cultural Dimensions of Indian Indentured Labour and its Diaspora: Past and Present. Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Radica Mahase (Eds), New Delhi: Manohar Publisher & Distributors, 2016.

 

 

  1. Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Historical and contemporary issues in Suriname and the Caribbean. Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine, Cheryl White and Radica Mahase (Eds), New Delhi: Manohar Publisher & Distributors, 2016.

 

  1. Islam, Muslims and Indentured Labour: Diaspora Experiences of a Minority Group in Plural Societies, Maurits S. Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Goolam Vahed (Eds), New Delhi: Manohar Publisher & Distributors, 2016

 

 

 

Book Chapters

  1. “Labor Migrations of the Nineteenth Century” in The Cambridge History of the Caribbean edited by Edward Rugemer; Kristen Block; Anne Eller; Matthew Smith, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
  2. “Not so Anchored: Remigration of Indians within the Caribbean Region” In Indenture and After: Gender, Agency and Resistance Amongst South Asian Overseas Migrants. Crispin Bates (ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

 

  1. “Berbice and Beyond: My Improbable Journey” In Girmitiyas: The Making of Their Memory-Keepers from the Indian Indentured Diaspora, Brij Lal (ed). Primus Books (forthcoming).

 

  1. “The African Caribbean Experience: Continuity and Change” In Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora, Mario Azevedo (ed), pp. 181-192, Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press 2018.

 

  1. “Three Controversial issues in Guyana: Border controversy, Out-Migration and Landownership” The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities, Clinton Beckford (Ed). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publisher, 2018.

 

  1. “Transnational migration during East Indian Indenture in British Guiana and Trinidad” The Legacy of Indian Indenture: Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Migration and Diaspora. Maurits Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Hans Ramsoedh (Eds), pp 15-36, New Delhi: Manohar Publisher 2016.

 

  1. “Resistance and Adaptation among Indentured Indian Laborers in British Guiana during Indenturedship” In Resistance and Indian Indenture Experience: Comparative Perspective, Mauritus S. Hassankhan, Brij V. Lal & Doug Munro (Eds), pp 157-182, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2014.

 

  1. “Environmental Policy Challenges and Growth in Guyana” In Living at Borderlines: Issues in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development. Cynthia Barrow-Giles and Don Marshall (Eds.), pp 276-303.Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 2003.

 

 

Journal Articles

  1. “Intra-regional Caribbean labor migratory dynamics of Conflict and Solidarity in the United States Virgin Islands, 1950-2020” Caribbean Quarterly 63. No. 3 (2021): 304-319.

 

  1. “Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the United States Virgin Islands” Caribbean Studies 49. No. 1, (2021): 61-84.

 

  1. “Jews and Frenchies: White Ethnic Minority in the United States Virgin Islands” Small Axe: Journal of Criticism 65. (2021): 69-82.

 

  1. “White American Migration to the United States Virgin Islands: Development or Dominance. Researcher 30. No. 1 (2020): 1-20.

 

  1. “Contract Labor Migration as an agent of Revolutionary Change in the Danish West Indies” Labor History 61. Issue 5-6, (2020): 692-705.

 

  1. “The Village Peeper” (short story) Caribbean Writer 32 (2018): 122-128.

 

  1. “Muslim Faith and Work Ethic in the United States Virgin Islands” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 36. Issue 1 (2016): 62-73.

 

  1. “East Indian women and Leadership Roles during Indentured Servitude in British Guiana 1838-1920, Journal of International Women Studies, Vol. 16. No. 3 (July 2015): 174-185.

 

  1. “East Indians in the United States Virgin Islands” Social and Economic Studies63. No. 1 (2014): 89-110

 

  1. “A Critique of East Indian indentured Historiography in the Caribbean” Labor History 55. No. 3 (2014): 389-401.

 

  1. “Guyana Population Movements and Societal Development” Institute of Developmental Studies, University of Guyana Special Series Paper #712 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary (1963-2013) of the University of Guyana, (2013).

 

  1. “A Comparative Analysis of two failed Indenture Experiences in Post-emancipation Caribbean: British Guiana (1838-1843) and Danish St. Croix (1863–1868)” IberoAmericana: Nordic Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University, Vol. 42. No. 1 & 2 (2012): 203-230.

 

  1. “Regulations and Remittances from British Indentured Guianese,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32. No. 3 (2012): 662-671.

 

  1. “Draputie’s Vanishing Hopes” (creative short story) Arts Journal, (University of Guyana) Vol. 7, No 1 & 2 (Spring 2012): 50-54.

 

  1. “St. Croix’s Secession Movement in the United States Virgin Islands: Sentimental or Serious,” Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies 36, No. 1, (2011): 43-65

 

  1. “Indian Migration during Indentured Servitude in British Guiana and Trinidad, 18501920,” Labor History 52. No. 2, (2011): 173-192.

 

  1. “The Challenges of CARICOM Integration: The Barbadian-Guyanese Impasse,” Transition, Institute of Developmental Studies at the University of Guyana Vol. 40, (2011): 62-91.

 

  1. “Maroon Resistance and Settlement on Danish St. Croix,” Journal of Third World Studies Vol. 27, Issue 2, (2010): 89-108

 

  1. “Social Identity in the Modern United States Virgin Islands,” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Vol.16, No.6. (November 2010): 791-807.

 

  1. “The Indian Sea Voyage between India and the Caribbean during the second half of the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Caribbean History 44. No. 1. (2010): 48-74.

 

  1. “Repatriation and Remittances of ex-Indian Indentured from Danish St. Croix, 18681873” Scandinavian Journal of History 35. No. 2. 2010: 247-267.

 

  1. “Indian Social Identity in Guyana, Trinidad and North American Diaspora,” Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora 12. No. 3. (2009): 87-125.

 

  1. “The First and Only Crossing: Indian Indenture on Danish St. Croix 1863-1868” South Asian Diaspora 1. No. 2, (2009): 113-140.

 

  1. “United States Virgin Islands Migration,” Social and Economic Studies 57: 3 & 4, (2008): 131-156.

 

  1. The Repatriation, Readjustment, and second-term Migration of Ex-indentured Indian Laborers from British Guiana and Trinidad to India 1838-1955” New West Indian Guide 83. No.1 & 2, (2009): 71-97.

 

  1. “The Other Side of Indo-Caribbean Indentureship: Land-ownership, Savings and Remigration” Journal of Caribbean History 42. No. 2. (December 2008): 205-230.

 

  1. “Eastern Caribbean Islanders in St. Croix: Intra-Island Migration and Ethnic Relations” Journal of Caribbean Studies. Vol. 22. No. 3. (2008): 137-154.

 

  1. “Guyanese Indian Diaspora within the Caribbean: Migration and Identity.” Man in India: A Quarterly International Journal of Anthropology. 88, No. 1: (2008): 5770.

 

  1. “The Return of East Indian Indentured servants from the Caribbean to India 18381920” Journal of Caribbean History 40, No. 2, (2006): 308-324.

 

  1. “Indo-Caribbean Social Identity,” Caribbean Quarterly, 52. No. 1, (2006): 1-11.

 

  1. “Small-scale Gold Mining and Environmental Policy Challenges in Guyana’s Interior Region.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 32 No.61. (Spring 2006):115-144.

 

  1. “Indo-Caribbean Intra-Island Migration: Not so Marginalized.” Social and Economic Studies 54, No. 2, (2005), 107-136.

 

  1. “The Dilution of the Caste System among Caribbean East Indians”, La Torre, Vol. 34 No. 36-37, (2005): 275-287.

 

  1. “East Indian Emigration to the Caribbean: Beyond the Push and Pull Model” Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico. 31. No. 2, (Spring 2004): 97-134.

 

  1. “Indo-Caribbean Migration: From Periphery to Core.” Caribbean Quarterly. Vol. 49. No. 3, (Fall 2003): 30-60.

 

  1. “Wounding Guyana: Gold Mining and Environmental Degradation.” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Vol. 73, (October 2002): 83-91.

 

  1. “Indo-Guyanese Migration: From Plantation to Metropolis!” Immigrants and Minorities. 20. No. 2, (2001): 1-25.

 

  1. “Politics, Economics and Environmental Policy in Guyana.” Journal of Caribbean History. Vol. 34. No.1 & 2, (2000): 178-217.

 

  1. “The Dual Legacy of Antigua’s First Prime Minister Vere Bird, 1909-1999.” Revista/Review Interamericana. University of Puerto Rico. Vol. 30. No. 1-4, (2000): 1-8.

 

 

Book Reviews

  1. Baytoram Ramharack, Jung Bahadur Singh of Guyana (1886-1956): Politician, ship doctor, labor leader and protector of Indians, San Juan, Trinidad: Chakra Publishing, 2019, Journal of Caribbean History (forthcoming).

 

  1. Caree A. Banton, More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Journal of African American History (Forthcoming).

 

  1. Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, New York, Vintage Books, 2016, The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies (forthcoming).

 

  1. Jerome Teelucksingh. Beyond the Legacy of the Missionaries and East Indians, Leiden: Brill. 2020. New West Indian Guide. 95. No. 1-2 (2020): 71-72.

 

  1. Allison Klein, Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture: The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire. London & New Yok: Palgrave, MacMillan 2019, New West Indian Guide 94 (2020): 353-354.

 

  1. David Gilmour, The British in India: A Social History of the Raj, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 2018. The Historian 81 No. 4 (Winter 2019):718-19.

 

  1. Radhika Mongia, Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018 The Historian 81 Issue. 3 (Fall 2019): 510-511.

 

  1. Marilyn Krigger, Race Relations in U.S Virgin Islands: St. Thomas –A Centennial Retrospective. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Publishing. 2018. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 42. Issue 11 (2019): 2387-2389.

 

  1. Ashutosh Kumar. Coolies of the Empire: indentured Indians in the sugar colonies, 1830-1920. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Labor History. Vol. 60. Issue 5 (2019): 590-91.

 

  1. Dave Ramsaran and Linden Lewis. Caribbean Masala: Indian in Guyana and Trinidad, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. Journal of Urban Affairs. Vol. 60. No. 2. (2019): 164-166.

 

  1. Colbert I. Nepaulsingh, The Birth of the Kabir Panthi Movement in Trinidad. Port of Spain, Paria Publishing Co. Ltd, 2018. Caribbean Quarterly. 65. Issue 2 (2019): 308-310.

 

  1. Edwin L. Martin, Stranded Batsman, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. Journal of Caribbean History 53. No. 1 (2019): 181-185.

 

  1. Llana Barber, Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-200, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017 Latin Americanists Vol. 62. No. 3 (2018): 606-607.

 

  1. Vilbert C. Cambridge Musical Life in Guyana: History and Politics of Controlling Creativity. Jackson, Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi. 2015, Caribbean Writer 32 (2018): 236-239.

 

  1. Steven Hyland, More Argentine than You: Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in Argentina. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. The Latin Americanists, Vol. 62 No. 2 (2018): 308-310.

 

 

  1. Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre. Zed Books, London. 2014. International Journal of Women’s Studies Vol. 19. No. 2 (2018): 264-265.

 

  1. Jan Lowe Shinebourne, The Last Ship, Leeds: Peepal Tree, 2015, Caribbean Writer 30. (2016): 343-344.

 

  1. Tony Martin, Caribbean History: Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present, Boston: Pearson, 2012, Nordic Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Vol. 45. No. 1 (2016): 3-5.

 

  1. Sabir Nakhuda, Bengal to Barbados: A 100 Year History of East Indians in Barbados, Self-published, St. James, Barbados, 2013, Caribbean Quarterly 61. No. 4, (2016): 160-61.

 

  1. Keith Tinker, The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010, Ethno History 63. No. 1 (2016): 203-204.

 

  1. Hillary McD Beckles, Britain’s Black Death: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Genocide, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2013 Journal of Third World Studies 32. No. 1 (2015): 351-352.

 

  1. Robert E. May, Slavery, Race and Conquest in the Tropic: Lincoln, Douglas and the Future of America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, Journal of Mississippi History LXXVII, No. 1 & 2 (2015):100-101.

  

  1. PETER MANUEL Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums: Retention and Invention in IndoCaribbean Music Urbana, University of Illinois Press 2014, Ethnomusicology Forum 24. Issue 3 (2015): 480-82.

 

  1. J. Fuller & Haripriya Narasimhan: Tamil Brahmans, The Making of a MiddleClass Caste, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, Journal of Intercultural Affairs Vol. 36. No 4. (2015) 508-510.

 

  1. Jan Lowe Shinebourne, Chinese Women, Leed: Peepal Tree Press, 2010, Journal of Caribbean Literatures 7, No. 2 (2013): 217-218.

 

  1. Khalil Rahman Ali, Sugar Sweet Allure, London: Hansib Publication, 2013 Journal of Caribbean Literatures 7, No. 2 (2013): 215-216.

 

 

  1. Rupert, Linda M. Creolization and Contraband: Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2012, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 98, (2015): 126-128.

 

  1. Coolie Pink and Green, film by Patricia Mohammed, Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 1 (2015): 185-187.

 

  1. JoAnne Poblete, Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai‘i University Press of Illinois, Labor History 65. No. 1 (2015): 113-114.

 

  1. Colin A. Palmer, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2010, Social & Economic Studies 63. No. 3 & 4 (2014): 348-350.

 

  1. Rahul Bhattacharya, The Sly Company of People Who Care, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, Journal of West Indian Literature 22. No. 2 (2014): 83-85.

 

  1. April J. Mayes, The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014 Caribbean Quarterly 60, No. 3 (2014): 104-05.

 

  1. Toyin Falola, The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization, University of Rochester Press, Rochester NY, 2013. African Affairs114. Issue 454 (2015): 168-169.

 

  1. Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2013, Journal of Intercultural Affairs 35. No. 4. (2014): 464-65.

 

  1. Emmanuel C. Nwagboso, Anarchy and the Quest for Political Stability in Sierra Leone, Lewiston: Edwin Mellon Press, 2013, African Affairs Vol. 113. No. 451 (2014): 326-327

 

  1. Lilia Fernandez, Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013, Ethnic and Racial Studies No. 10 (January 2014): 1973-1975

 

  1. Kathleen Lopez, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History, The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2013, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History No. 1. (2014) DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0018 .

 

  1. Rosanne, Kanhai, Bindi: The Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women, Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2011 International Journal of Women Studies 15, No. 1 (2014): 228-229.

 

  1. John Gimlette, Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge, Alfred A. Knoff, New York, 2011, Caribbean Quarterly Vol. 59, Nos. 3 & 4 (2013): 194-196.

 

  1. Boyer, William, America’s Virgin Islands: A history of Human Rights and Wrongs (2nd edition) Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2010, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Vo. 36. No. 72 (ONLINE).

 

  1. Pierre-Louis Jr., Francois, Haitians in New York City: Transnationalism and Hometown Associations, Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 2006, Journal of Third World Studies XXIX. No. 2, (2012): 277-278.

 

  1. Franklin Knight, The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism, 3rd edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, Journal of Caribbean History 46. No. 1 2012: 118-120.

 

  1. Gore, Akai, H. Garrote: The Illusion of Social Equality and Political Justice in the United States Virgin Islands, Wadadli Press, 2009, Island Studies 7. No. 2, (2012): 277-279.

 

  1. Rodriguez, E. Nestor, Divergent Dictions: Contemporary Dominican Literature, Coconut Creek, FL: Caribbean Studies Press, 2011 Caribbean Writer 26, (2012): 278-277.

 

  1. Haseth, de Carel, Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), Translated and with an Introduction by Olga E. Rojer & Joseph o. Aimone, New York; Peter Lang, 2011, Caribbean Writer 26, (2012): 284-286.

 

  1. Jadish Roy Singh, Days of Laughter. Canada: Blue Tree Publishing, 2010, Caribbean Writer, Vol. 25, (2011): 389-393.

 

  1. Elizabeth Rezende & Anne Walbom, Croix: Historic Photos, Denmark: Narayana Press. 2009. Caribbean Writer Vol. 24, (2010): 381-383.

 

  1. David Dabydeen, Jonathan Morley, Brinsley Samaroo, Amar Wahab & Brigid Wells, Theophilus Richmond, The First Crossing: Being The Diary of Theophilus Richmond, Ship’s Surgeon Aboard The Hesperus, 1837-8, Derek Walcott Press, 2007. Journal of Caribbean History 43. No. 2. (2009): 285-290.

 

  1. Lloyd McCarthy. “In-Dependence” from Bondage, Claude McKay and Michael Manley: Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations, Africana Research Publication. 2007. Caribbean Writer, 22. (2008): 271-274.

 

  1. Nathalie Dessens, Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American South and the West Indies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.New West Indian Guide, 80. No. 3&4, (2006): 281-282.

 

  1. Tina K. Ramnarine, Creating their own Destiny: The Development of an Indian Caribbean Musical Tradition. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2000 Caribbean Writer, Vol. 19. (2005): 267-270.

 

  1. Kean Gibson, A Cycle of Racial Oppression in Guyana. University Press of America, 2003. Caribbean Quarterly Vol 50. No. 2 (June 2004): 86-90.

 

  1. Dawn F. Stinchcomb, The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2004. Caribbean Writer 20. (2004): 252-256.

 

 

 

Bibliographical Entries

 

  1. “European, African and Javanese Indentured Servitude in the Caribbean,” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press 2018. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0313

 

  1. “Chinese Indentured Servitude in the Atlantic World.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 26 April 2018. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0294

 

  1. “Indian Indentured Servitude in the Atlantic World.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 30 March DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0210

 

  1. “Guyanese in New York State” In the Encyclopedia of New York State, Peter Eisenstadts & Laura-Eve Moss (Eds). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005, pp 862-683.

 

 

Interviews

 

  1. Roopnarine, Lomarsh, “Interview with Frank Birbalsingh.” Caribbean Writer 19, (2005): 213-222.

 

  1. Roopnarine, Lomarsh. Interview with Patricia Mohammed: The Status of Indo-Caribbean Women: From Indenture to the Contemporary Period. Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 17. No. 3, (2016): 4-16.

 

  1. Roopnarine, Lomarsh, “Interview with Khal Torobally: Coolitude: Twenty-five years Later” Caribbean Writer 30. (2016): 284-294.

 

 

Interviewed by Reporters and Journal Editors

  1. Interviewed Alscess Lewis-Brown, Editor of Caribbean Writer, Spring 2019
  2. Interviewed by Samantha Harlow on the radio program Caribbean Conscious on Indian identity on October 18, 2018.
  3. Interviewed by Suman Guha Mozumder for India Abroad Magazine on Indo-Caribbean community mourns the death of Nobel laureate Naipaul on August 15, 2018.
  4. Interviewed by Aisiri Amin, Correspondent for Little India Magazine on Beyond Coolie Identity in the Caribbean on October 1, 2017.
  5. Interviewed by Sidsel Nyholm, U.S. correspondent, for the Daily Danish newspaper, Kristeligt Dagblad on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Denmark’s sale of the Virgin Islands to the United States on March 15, 2017.
  6. Interviewed by Danish Journalist Jon Mathorne on Danish West Indies with regard to The constitutional match provides conflict in former Danish colony on March 13, 2017.
  7. Interviewed by Samantha Harlow on the radio program Caribbean Conscious on Indo-Caribbean History, and their interactions with/contributions to history and culture in the United States Virgin Islands on May 10, 2016.
  8. Interviewed by Samuel Oakford, VICE News’ UN correspondent, based at the Secretariat in New York on Guyana’s ongoing border controversy with Venezuela on October 25, 2015.

 

Conference Presentations

  1. “Indo-Caribbean Migration, Cultural Continuity, Change and Identity Formation” University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of South Asian Studies, Center for Leadership & Involvement Virtual Lecture series, March 4, 2021.

 

  1. “Contesting and Contextualizing: Caribbean East Indian Identity,” A paper presented at Calibanías y Caribeñidades: Espacios y Topografías Calibans and Caribbeanisms: Spaces and Topographies Calibanismes et Antillanismes: Espaces et Topographies conference at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 5 April -7 April 2018.

 

  1. “Misconceptions of Indian Plantation Indenture” A paper presented at the conference on The State of Indian Caribbean Diaspora 100 years after the Abolishment of Indenturedship,” at Columbia University, New York on December 2, 2017.

 

  1. “Combating Decay during Indian Indentured Servitude in the Nineteenth century”, a paper presented at the 45th Annual Conference on South Asia at Madison, Wisconsin, October 19-24, 2016.

 

  1. “Ethnic Conundrum in the United States Virgin Islands” a paper presented at National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on February 11, 2016.

 

  1. “Indentured Indian Historiography in the Anglophone Caribbean”, a paper presented at the Indian Diaspora: Identity, Trajectories and Tran nationalities conference at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, May 12-16, 2015.

 

  1. “Reconstructing and Reconstituting Caste Customs on the Returning Ships from the Caribbean to India during Indenture”, a paper presented at the 40th annual Caribbean Studies Association conference at the Hilton Riverside Hotel, New Orleans, May 24-29, 2015.

 

  1. “Transnational Connections during Indenture” a paper presented at the Indentured Labor Route International Conference in Mauritius on November 2-5, 2014.

 

  1. “Hispanic Hybridization in the United States Virgin Islands” a paper presented at National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates at Mississippi College, Clinton Mississippi on April 29, 2014.

 

  1. “African Heritage in the Caribbean” a paper presented at the Annual Spring Colloquium at Baltimore City Community College On April 10, 2014.

 

  1. “Lecture on 150th anniversary of the Arrival of East Indians in Danish St. Croix”, a paper presented to the Landmark Society of St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands on March 10, 2014.

 

  1. “Black Radicalism in the United States Virgin Islands,” a paper presented the Radical Caribbeans conference, New Orleans, Louisiana on October 4, 2013.

 

  1. “Problems and predictions in Caribbean East Indian Indentured Historiography” a paper presented at the 150th anniversary of the abolition of Slavery and Indenture conference in Suriname on June 6, 2013.

 

  1. “Hispanics on St. Croix: Migration and Identity,” a paper presented at National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies Conference, Baton Rouge Louisiana, on February 14, 2013.

 

  1. “African identity in the Caribbean: Cultural Continuity and Change,” a paper presented at Jackson State University October 30, 2012.

 

  1. Conversation with Dr. William W. Boyer on the occasion of the second edition of his book America’s Virgin Islands: A History of Rights and Wrongs (2010) via Skype at the Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico on December 2, 2010.

 

  1. “Asian Identity in the Caribbean.” A paper presented at the Conference on The Islands in Between: Language, Literature and Culture of the Eastern Caribbean on 6 November 2009, Dominica.

 

  1. “St. Croix Secession Movement in the United States Virgin Islands: Independence or Insularity,” a paper presented at the University of Puerto Rico on October 10, 2008.

 

  1. “Indo-Caribbean Resistance and Accommodation,” a paper presented at the University of Puerto Rico on October 10, 2008.

 

  1. “Intra-Caribbean Migration: St Lucians to the United States Virgin Islands, St. Croix,” a paper presented at the Association of Caribbean Historians Conference in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in Trinidad in May 2006.

 

  1. “Indo-Caribbean Migration within the Caribbean,” a paper presented at the International Literary Conference: “Caribbean Migrations: Negotiating Borders” at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the 18-22, July, 2005.

 

  1. “The Social Transformation of Caribbean East Indians,” a paper presented at the International East Indian Diaspora Conference: East Indians in the Caribbean: Reflections of the Past; Charting the Way Forward at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad on the 28th and 29th of May 2005.

 

  1. “Cultural Change and Continuity: The Dilution of the Caste System among Caribbean East Indians” a Paper Presented at the Conference on The Islands in Between: Language, Literature and Culture of the Eastern Caribbean in Tortola, British Virgin Islands on the 3-7 November 2004.

 

  1. “Managing Guyana’s Forest Regions and the Development of Urban Forests: Cooperation and Challenge,” Proceedings of the 9th Annual Caribbean Urban and Community Forestry Conference in St. John, USVI, June 2004: 36-41. (wrote a paper but unable to present).

 

  1. “Migration under Indo-Caribbean Indenture Servitude 1838-1917” a paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. Kitts Marriott Resort, Frigate Bay, St. Kitts, between May 31 and June 5, 2004.

 

  1. “A History of Intra-Indo-Caribbean Migration,” a paper presented at the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean Conference: The Global Interface on St Augustine Campus, Trinidad, on the 21 and 22 of May 2004.

 

  1. “Creating Opportunities out of Indo-Caribbean Indenture”, a paper presented at the Conference: Globalization, Diaspora and Identity Formation at the Hotel Krasnapolky, Paramaribo, Suriname between 26 and 29 of February 2004.

 

  

Contributions to Jackson State University

  • Served as an Interim Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy 2019-2020
  • Served in the capacity of the Chair on the College of Liberal Arts Tenure and Promotion committee
  • Served in the capacity of the Chair of the Search Committee for an Assistant Professor of History
  • Served on the Search Committee for an Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • Serving on the Interdisciplinary Programs and Initiatives Committee
  • Serving on the Student International Programs Committee
  • Serving on Student Advising Committee
  • Serving on the Graduate Admissions and Scholarship Committee
  • Serving on the Technology Committee
  • Serving on the College Tenure and Promotion Committee

 

 

 

Contributions to the University and the Community of the United States Virgin Islands

  • Served as Chair of the Assessment Committee on Social Science Majors (Psychology, Criminal Justice, Social Work and Social Sciences)
  • Served on the Periodic Review Report (PRR) on Institutional Effectiveness to be submitted by University of the Virgin Islands to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
  • Served on the Distinguishing Lecture Series/Committee
  • Served on the Library Committee
  • Served on the Faculty Policy Manual Committee
  • Served on the Technology Committee
  • Served on Isaac Dookhan Memorial Committee
  • Served on the Job search Committee for Masters of Business Administration faculty
  • Served on the Alexander Hamilton Committee for the Government of the Virgin Islands and the University of the Virgin Islands
  • Served on the Scholarly and Creative Committee
  • Served as Chair and Coordinator of Social Science 100 Freshman course (8 Sections)
  • Represented the University of the Virgin Islands at a conference held by former Prime Minister Vere Bird of Antigua and Barbuda
  • Examiner for summer praxis examinations at the University of the Virgin Islands
  • Member of the Virgin Islands Historical Society
  • Reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals
  • Board member for Virgin Islands Humanities Council
  • Presented a paper on Haiti’s earthquake at the University of the Virgin Islands
  • Presented a paper on the late Rex Nettleford at the University of the Virgin Islands
  • Presented a paper on Socialist Leaders in the Caribbean at the University of the Virgin Islands
  • Presented a paper to the Police Department of the United States Virgin Islands
  • Former advisor for the Police Science Associate Degree  Advisor for Social Science Major
  • Reader for four Master’s thesis in Psychology and Education

 

 

Awards & Honors

  • Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation “Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Creating Opportunities out of Adversity” State University of New York at Albany, 2002.
  • Visiting Scholar at Skidmore College 2006-2007
  • Promoted to Associate Professor Fall 2009 at University at the Virgin Islands
  • Granted Tenure Summer 2010 at the University of the Virgin Islands
  • Recognized for the most published faculty member at the University of the Virgin Islands 2008-2009
  • Received acknowledgement as a reviewer by Oxford University Press to have my name placed in the preface of Franklin Knight’s book The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (3rd edition) Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010
  • Specifically nominated by my department for inclusion in an important study (Common Core State Standards Initiative Validity Study) that focuses on better preparing high school students for the rigor of college coursework
  • Member of Editorial Board for the Journal of South Asian Diaspora
  • Member of Editorial Board for the International Journal of Women’s Studies
  • Member of Editorial Board for the Caribbean Writer
  • Member of Board of University Press of Mississippi
  • Member of Editorial Board for Cambridge History of the Caribbean (3 Volumes)
  • Received the University of Virgin Islands mini-grant for the margin of excellence in 2009
  • Received sabbatical for Fall 2011 at University of the Virgin Islands
  • Received sabbatical for Fall 2017 at Jackson State University
  • Received 2018 Sybil and Gordon Lewis Caribbean Studies Association Book Award
  • Received 2014 Faculty Excellence Award in the area of teaching, research and service in the History Department at Jackson State University
  • Promoted to Full Professor in 2017 from Jackson State University

 

 

Professional Membership

  • Association of Caribbean Historians
  • Association of Virgin Islands Historians
  • Board Member of University Press of Mississippi
  • Executive Member of Association of Indentured Historians

 

 

 

 

 

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