Profile: Professor Clinton Hutton

Professor Clinton Hutton, CD, PhD, is an award winning researcher and author with a distinguished record of research and publications, including four books, numerous book chapters and journal articles, and scores of works of an artistic nature. His books include Colour for Colour Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay: Ian Randle Publishers 2015, Leonard Percival Howell & the Genesis of Rastafari (with M. Barnett et al): University of the West Indies Press 2015 and The Logic & Historical Significance of the Haitian Revolution & the Cosmological Roots of Haitian Freedom: Arawak Publications 2005.

Hutton has made over 100 conference presentations and has initiated and organized many conferences, symposia and research projects. His research interests spanned the culture of enslaved Africans, African Caribbean spirituality including Rastafari, Vodun, Revival, Caribbean revolutions and grassroots movements, freedom, Caribbean art and aesthetics, Jamaican popular music, masculinity, and Caribbean political philosophy. Clinton Hutton is the Director of the Institute of Technological and Educational Research (ITER) at Mico University College and retired Professor of Caribbean Political Philosophy, Culture and Aesthetics at the University of the West Indies. He is a noted painter and photographer.