Eudine Barriteau

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Eudine Barriteau
FB, GCM
Born (1954-12-10) 10 December 1954 (age 70)
Academic career
Field Gender and development
Institution University of the West Indies at Cave Hill
Alma mater Howard University, Washington DC
Awards GCM

Violet Eudine Barriteau, FB, GCM (10 December 1954), [1] is a professor of gender and public policy, as well as Principal of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. She was also the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2009 to 2010, [2] and she is on the advisory editorial boards of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International , published by SUNY Press, [3] and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , published by University of Chicago Press. [4]

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Her research interests encompass feminist theorizing, gender and public policy, investigations of the Caribbean political economy, and theorizing heterosexual women's socio-sexual unions. [5]

Barriteau was appointed a Member of the Order of Freedom of Barbados (FB) in the 2019 Independence Day Honours List, "for her outstanding contribution to tertiary education and pioneering leadership in the development of gender studies and the promotion of gender equality." [6]

In 2024, Barriteau was elected in a vote at the United Nations (UN) in New York to serve on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) based in Geneva, Switzerland. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Early life

Violet Eudine Barriteau was born 10 December 1954, in the Caribbean island of Grenada and migrated to Barbados in 1966. She attended Ellerslie Secondary School. [1]

Education

Barriteau gained her teacher training certificate from Erdiston Teachers' Training College, [1] and her BSc degree in public administration and accounting in 1980 from University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados. She later studied at the New York University, New York and qualified for her MPA degree in public administration (public sector financial management) in 1984. Barriteau travelled to the Philippines, to the International Rice Research Institute for a certificate in editing and publications training which she completed in 1986. Finally she returned to America for her doctoral studies, and in 1994 obtained a PhD degree in political science from Howard University, Washington, D.C., with her specialization being political economy and political theory. [11]

Career

Honours

Selected bibliography

Books

Journal articles

Personal life

Barriteau has a son, Cabral. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "FACES of ordinary Barbadian women doing extraordinary things, Professor Violet Eudine Barriteau, GCM". Archived from the original on 2013-07-10. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  2. "Past presidents". International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International – journal information, editorial boards". Project MUSE, State University of New York (SUNY) Press. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  4. 1 2 "University of Chicago Press Journals: Signs – Editorial Board, International Advisory Board". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Office of the Deputy Principal, The Deputy Principal: Professor V Eudine Barriteau". The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  6. "2019 Independence Day Honours List". Government of Barbados. Government of Barbados. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  7. "Professor Emerita the Most Honourable V. Eudine Barriteau elected to CEDAW". Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. 2024-06-12. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
  8. "Barriteau elected to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)". www.mona.uwi.edu. 2024-06-14. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
  9. "Congratulations to Dr. Barriteau". Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE). 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
  10. "Former UWI Principal elected to UN anti-discrimination committee | UWI Global Campus". global.uwi.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Curriculum vitae, Violet Eudine Barriteau, PhD" (PDF). The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  12. Best, Tony (20 February 2015). "Historic: Professor Eudine Barriteau is the first woman to lead the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies". St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies: Nation News. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  13. "Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Eudine Barriteau". The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  14. Barriteau, Eudine (2003). Confronting power, theorizing gender interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica Great Britain: University of the West Indies Press. ISBN   9789766401368.
  15. "Press Release 258/2011". Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. 4 July 2011. Archived from the original on 2014-04-28. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  16. Joseph, Emmanuel (30 November 2013). "Sirs Alike". Barbados Today. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
Non-profit organisation positions
Preceded by President of the International Association for Feminist Economics
2009–2010
Succeeded by