University of Pittsburgh

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Cecilia A. Green, PhD

University of Toronto, 1998

Title: Assistant Professor
Campus Address: 2421 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7592
Fax: 412-648-2799
E-mail: cagreen@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Fields

Race/Class/Gender, Caribbean, Global, Labor & Development Studies

Teaching

Undergraduate: Social Problems; Wealth and Power; Race, Gender and Development; Gender, Race and Nation in the Caribbean, Working Women, Social Theory
Global Change

Selected Publications

"Unspeakable Worlds and Muffled Voices: Thomas Thistlewood as Agent and Medium of Eighteenth-Century Jamaican Society," in Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall, ed. Brian Meeks (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle; London: Lawrence & Wishart, 2007), 151-184.

"Caribbean Dependency Theory of the 1970s Revisited: A Historical-Materialist-Feminist Revision," in New Caribbean Thought: A Reader, ed. by Brian Meeks and Folke Lindahl (Kingston, Jamaica: The Press—University of the West Indies, 2001).

"A Recalcitrant Plantation Colony: Dominica, 1880-1946," New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Vol. 73, No. 3 & 4 (1999), 43-71.

"The Asian Connection: The U.S.-Caribbean Apparel Circuit and the Evolution of a New Model of Industrial Relations," Latin American Research Review, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Fall 1998), 7-47.

"At the Junction of the Global and the Local: Transnational Industry and Women Workers in the Caribbean," in Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade, ed. by Lance Compa and Stephen Diamond (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 118-140.

"Gender, Race and Class in the Social Economy of the English-Speaking Caribbean," Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2 & 3 (June/September 1995), 65-102.

Honors/Awards

2006 Award of Excellence "For Being An Outstanding Professor" from the student group, Sisters ofChi Omega (University of Pittsburgh chapter)

2001-2002 Henry Charles Chapman Research Fellowship, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

2000-2001 Scholars-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Projects

Book manuscript: "Between Respectability and Self-Respect: The Evolution of Afro-Caribbean Female Status, Identity, and Agency"