About Us
Governing Body
David Dabydeen, Director
Professor David Dabydeen is a Guyanese novelist, poet and academic. He was Guyana's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010 and Guyana's Ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015. David also served at the University of Warwick from 1984 to 2017… read more
Yvette Hoskings-James
Yvette Hoskings-James is an experienced commercial lawyer with UK and international experience. She is currently working as an assistant general counsel for a professional association for the accounting profession, where she works on a wide range of legal matters… Read more
Roger van Zwanenberg
Roger van Zwanenberg has had three lives, first as an African academic historian from 1969 to 1975; and second as a Book Publisher from 1976 to 2012. He is now in retirement and is the Founder of the Pluto Educational Trust, a charity; Ollema Ltd… read more
Indeera Payne
Indeera Payne, a graduate from the Open University, lectured at Lambeth College between 1997 and 2018. Aside from teaching, Indeera was responsible for assessing and verifying candidates for mainstream courses and apprenticeship programmes. She is currently a Verification Specialist for Transport for London.
Mark Tumbridge
Mark Tumbridge teaches in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies at the University of Guyana. He graduated from Brunel University, and after winning the inaugural David Nicholls Memorial Trust Scholarship, he was admitted to the University of Warwick… read more
Priscilla Velvindron
Priscilla Velvindron is a professional French Interpreter and Administrator. She was born in Mauritius, and spent her childhood there.
She worked as an Administrative Assistant at University College London, and was a key member of a team tasked with… read more
Ian Marshall
Ian Marshall is a chartered accountant who has worked in banking and insurance for the past 40 years. He is currently a non-executive director of a London market insurance firm and has for the past 10 years also been a senior advisor at the Bank of England. Ian has been active in public and charitable… read more
Editors
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen is an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Her academic work focuses on colonial literature about the indenture system in Guyana and her book, With Eyes of Wonder: Colonial Writing on Indentured Indians in British Guiana 1838-1917 read more
Tao Leigh Goffe
Tao Leigh Goffe is an Assistant Professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University. She leads the Afro-Asia Group, and has a joint appointment between the Department of Africana Studies and Programme in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Tao Leigh Goffe’s academic work examines… read more
Amar Wahab
Amar Wahab is Associate Professor in Gender and Sexuality, at York University, Toronto. His publications include Disciplining Coolies: An Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846 (in Series on Transnationalism, Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2019) and Colonial Inventions: Landscape, Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century ‘Trinidad’ read more
Advisors and Consultants
Arlen Harris, Film Consultant
Arlen Harris is an award winning programme maker with over 30 years experience in the industry, working mainly for British broadcasters such as Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV and BBC TV and Radio. He has also produced programmes for National Geographic… read more
Lynne Macedo, Website Co-Editor
Lynne Macedo is Associate Fellow of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She has previously worked as joint editor of the Caribbean Press and Guyana Classics series. Her 2001 doctoral dissertation was entitled Fiction and Film: The Influence of Cinema on Writers from Trinidad and Jamaica… read more
Ben Jacob, Academic Advisor on New and Emerging Research
Ben Jacob is a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge, where his research focusses on plantation worlds in the nineteenth century. His undergraduate dissertation at the University of Oxford explored the intimate lives and literatures of Indian labourers aboard indentured voyages, and was awarded the Herbert Prize for best dissertation in colonial history… read more
Salah Abdul Salam, Researcher
Salah Abdul Salam, from Kochi, India, is a researcher for the Ameena Gafoor Institute, engaged in an oral history project, interviewing a variety of people on historical and contemporary Hindu—Muslim relations in Kochi and Kerala. Previously he was Service Assistant Manager for the Old Harbour Hotel Kochi and Hub Manager for a local tourism company. He is currently studying for the Bachelor of Commerce degree at Mangaluru University.
Administrative Staff
Eve Kanram
Eve Kanram is Secretary to the Governing Body. She coordinates activities and projects at the Ameena Gafoor Institute and the Pluto Educational Trust. Eve is a human geography graduate, she has worked across South and Southeast Asia as an auditor and consultant, specialising in responsible production and consumption, reduced inequalities, inclusive and quality education and responsible tourism development.
Academic Advisory Board
The role of the Academic Advisory Board is to provide advice and expertise in support of the Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies. Current members of the Academic Advisory Board are:
Grace Aneiza Ali, New York University
Gaiutra Bahadur, Rutgers University
Eddie Bruce-Jones, London University
Ajay Chhabra, Actor and Artistic Director
Richard Fung, OCAD University
Andil Gosine, York University, Toronto
Betty Govinden, alumna, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
Aliyah Khan, University of Michigan
Shivanjani Lal, Artist
Brij Lal, Professor Emeritus, The Australian National University
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, Ryerson University
Kathleen López, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Paloma Martin, University of Guyana
Heidi Safia Mirza, London University
Judith Misrahi-Barak, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Michael Mitchell, University of Warwick and University of Paderborn
Nalini Mohabir, Concordia University
Patricia Mohammed, Professor Emerita, University of the West Indies
Satendra Nandan, Professor Emeritus, University of Canberra
Rajrani Gobin, Mahatma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius
Ken Ramchand, Professor Emeritus, University of the West Indies
Tina K. Ramnarine, Royal Holloway University of London
Lomarsh Roopnarine, Jackson State University
Brinsley Samaroo, Professor Emeritus, University of the West Indies
Verene Shepherd, Professor Emerita, University of the West Indies
Nur Sobers-Khan, British Library
Janet Steel, Commonwealth International
Stephanos Stephanides, Professor Emeritus, University of Cyprus
Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto
Mark Tumbridge, University of Guyana
Athol Williams, University of Cape Town
Lisa Yun, State University of New York