Kamala Kempadoo

Kamala Kempadoo is a professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. She teaches Caribbean studies, Black radical and Black feminist thought, sex work studies, and critical antitrafficking studies, and has published extensively on the Caribbean sex trade and global antitrafficking discourses. She has a forthcoming book on Caribbean feminist methodologies, edited with Halimah A.F. DeShong, and is currently working on a collection about racism, coloniality, and antitrafficking with Elena Shih. Kempadoo has served as director of the graduate program in social and political thought at York University and temporarily as head of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. She is the recipient of various awards, including the Distinguished Scientific Award of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Studies Association. When not teaching in Toronto she lives in Barbados, where she is also associated with the Institute for Gender and Development Studies and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados.