Email: brian.meeks@uwimona.edu.jm

Dr Brian Meeks is Professor of social and political change, Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Mona. He has also taught at Michigan State University, Florida International University and Anton de Kom University of Suriname and served as Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, Stanford University and Brown University. He has published eight books and edited collections, including Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory, 1993 and 2001, Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives, 2007 and The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation (ed. with Norman Girvan) 2010. His first novel, Paint the Town Red was published in 2003.He is willing to give expertise on Jamaica, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago.