Patricia Mohammed is a Trinidadian scholar, writer, and filmmaker. She is currently a Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies. Her primary research interests are in gender, development and the role of art in the Caribbean imagination.
Academic career
"Patricia Mohammed is Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies and the Campus Co-ordinator, School for Graduate Studies and Research, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. From 2004 she has served as Deputy Dean,. From 1994-2002 she was Head of the Mona Unit, Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, Jamaica. She has also acted as Head and holds a Senior Lecturer position at the St. Augustine Unit of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies. For the fall semester of 2007 she was the Visiting Professor at State University of New York at Albany in joint appointment between Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women’s Studies." In 2006, she founded the open-access online peer-reviewed journal, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, of which she serves as the Executive Editor.
Film and Art
In 2007, Mohammed branched into filmmaking with her first film, Engendering Change: Caribbean Configurations. The film follows a one week intensive course on gender sensitive policy making, held in March 2006. She created a seven-part documentary film series A Different Imagination which serves as a companion to her book Imagining the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation. Mohammed's academic work also explores the role of art in the Caribbean. She has stated that she always wanted to be an artist, but went the academic route because it was more practical. She stated that "by marrying an artist, I have united my two loves, that of writing and painting." "In May 2006 she co-curated with artist Rex Dixon, a photo based exhibition entitled “The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity” comprising the works of 13 Caribbean artists at the National Library in Port of Spain, Trinidad which was also exhibited in October 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo."
Education
Mohammed received her B.Sc. in Economics and Sociology from the University of the West Indies in 1976. She earned her M.Sc. in Sociology in 1987 from the UWI as well with her thesis entitled: "Women and Education in Trinidad and Tobago, 1838 - 1980". In 1993, she received her Ph.D from the Institute of Social Studies in 1993 after completing her doctoral thesis entitled: "A Social History of Post-Migrant lndians in Trinidad, 1917-1947: A Gender Perspective."
Selected Works
Books Mohammed, P... Gendered realities: Essays in Caribbean feminist thought. University of West Indies Press. Mohammed, P.. Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947. Springer. Peer reviewed Articles Mohammed, P.. Towards indigenous feminist theorizing in the Caribbean. Feminist review, 59, 6-33. Mohammed, P.. ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired. Feminist Review, 65, 22-48. Book chapters Mohammed, P.. Writing Gender into History. In Engendering History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. Films Windows of the Past The Sign of the Loa Coolie Pink and Green The Colour of Darkness Seventeen Colours and a Sitar
