Verene Shepherd | |
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.png) Shepherd in 2023 | |
| Born | Verene Albertha Shepherd 1960 (age 63–64) Hopewell, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica |
| Education | St. Mary High School |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies (BA; MPhil); University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Academic and writer |
| Employer(s) | University of the West Indies, Mona |
Verene Albertha Shepherd (née Lazarus; born 1960) is a Jamaican academic who is a professor of social history at the University of the West Indies in Mona. She is the director of the university's Institute for Gender and Development Studies, and specialises in Jamaican social history and diaspora studies.
She has published prolifically in journals and books on topics including Jamaican economic history during slavery, the Indian experience in Jamaica, migration and diasporas and Caribbean women's history,[1] and is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa.[2]
- ^ "Verene A. Shepherd", Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
- ^ Hubbard, Ladee (10 May 2019). "Power to define yourself: The diaspora of female black voices". TLS. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.