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Education:
- Ph.D. New York University 2000
- M.A. New York University 1994
- AB (Honors) Brown University 1988
- Specialties:
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Globalization
Nationalism Central America & the Caribbean Popular Culture Political Economy Race Studies
- Research Interests:
Deborah Thomas, Ph.D. New York University 2000, is a
Caribbeanist whose research focuses on the changing
relationships among the political and cultural
dimensions of nationalism, globalization, and popular
culture. She is interested in the ways a changing
global political economy structures and restructures the
ways people of African descent think about,
experience, represent, and mobilize around racial,
class, national, gender, and generational identities.
Her book, “Out of Many, One (Black) People”:
Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica, will be published by Duke
University Press. Dr. Thomas is currently working on a
new project focusing on a contract labor program,
developed by the Jamaican Ministry of Labour, that
sponsors the seasonal migration of Jamaican women
for work in hotels throughout the United States. Prior to
her life as an academic, she was a professional dancer
with the New York-based Urban Bush Women. She
has also been a Program Director with the National
Council for Research on Women, an international
working alliance of women’s research and policy
centers whose mission is to enhance the connections
among research, policy analysis, advocacy, and
innovative programming on behalf of women and girls.
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Tamisha Navarro
- Giles Harrison-Conwill
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
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- D.A. Thomas, Subaltern Politics in Jamaica: A Review Essay of Obika Gray’s Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica,
Social and Economic Studies
(March, 2006).
- D.A. Thomas, Review of Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad,
American Anthropologist, vol. 108 no. 1
(2006).
- D.A. Thomas, “Development, ‘Culture,’ and the Promise of Modern Progress”,
Social and Economic Studies
(December, 2005).
- D.A. Thomas, "Transcending the Limits of Politicsl and Intellectual Boundaries: A Review of Charles V. Carnegie's Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands.",
World Order, vol. 34 no. 4
(2004),
pp. 9-20.
- D.A. Thomas, “Politics Beyond Boundaries: A Review Essay of Current Works on Nationalism, Migration, and Cultural Production within the Black Atlantic World.”,
Identities, vol. 11 no. 2
(2004),
pp. 265-283.
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