Dr.
Imani Tafari-Ama was
recently appointed Research Fellow (2018-21) in the Regional Coordinating
Office (RCO) of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), at the
University of the West Indies following a year as Fulbright
Scholar-in-Residence in the Anthropology Department at Bridgewater State
University for the 2017-18 academic year.
With a
Ph.D. is in Development Studies and Master’s degree in Women and Development
Studies, Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama has lectured across a broad range of disciplines
and on a number of topics including: Feminist Methodology and Epistemology;
Participatory Action Research and the Policy Process; the Culture of Rastafari;
African Religious Retentions in the Caribbean; Thought and Action in the
African Diaspora; Dancehall, Sex and religious ideology; Culture and Community
Development, as well as being invited to give special lectures on Rastafari,
colonial history, violence, gender and development issues at institutions
around the world. Dr. Tafari-Ama is the author of: Blood, Bullets and Bodies:
Sexual Politics Below Jamaica’s Poverty Line, Up For Air: This Half Has Never
Been Told (an award-winning novel and Lead in the Veins (poetry) as well as
several book chapters and articles.