| Patricia Mohammed | |
| Birth Date: | 1954 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Trinidad |
| Workplaces: | University of the West Indies |
| Alma Mater: | Institute of Social Studies |
| Main Interests: | Feminism, Caribbean feminism |
| Major Works: | "Rethinking Caribbean Difference", "Gender in Caribbean Development" |
Patricia Mohammed (born 28 February 1954) is a Trinidadian scholar, writer, and filmmaker.[1] She is a Professor Emerita of the University of the West Indies (UWI). Her primary research interests are in gender, development and the role of art in the Caribbean imagination. She founded the open-access online peer-reviewed journal Caribbean Review of Gender Studies.
Mohammed has a 1976 bachelor's degree in economics and sociology and a 1987 master's degree in sociology from the University of the West Indies (The UWI).[2]
She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Social Studies in 1993; her doctoral thesis was entitled A Social History of Post-Migrant Indians in Trinidad, 1917–1947: A Gender Perspective.
Mohammed is a Professor Emerita of the University of the West Indies,[3] having previously worked as a professor of gender and cultural studies as well as the St. Augustine campus coordinator for the School of Graduate Studies and Research.
In 2004, she served as Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) and at various times from 1994 to 2002, she was Head of the Mona Unit, Centre for Gender and Development Studies. She has also acted as Head and holds a Senior Lecturer position at the St. Augustine Unit of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at State University of New York at Albany in a joint appointment with Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies.
In 2006, she founded the open-access online peer-reviewed journal Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, of which she serves as the Executive Editor.[4]
In 2007, Mohammed branched into filmmaking with her first film, Engendering Change: Caribbean Configurations.[5] The film follows a one-week intensive course on gender sensitive policy making, held in March 2006.
She created a seven-part documentary film series A Different Imagination, which serves as a companion to her book Imagining the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation.[6]
Mohammed's academic work also explores the role of art in the Caribbean. She has stated that she always wanted to be an artist, but went the academic route because it was more practical. She stated that "by marrying an artist (Rex Dixon), I have united my two loves, that of writing and painting."[7]
In May 2006, Mohammed and Dixon curated the photo-based exhibition The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity. The show, including 13 Caribbean artists, was first exhibited at the National Library in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and then in October 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[8]
With Dixon, she co-authored the book Travels with a Husband, launched in November 2016, in conjunction with an exhibition of Dixon's artwork.[9]
Books
Peer-reviewed articles
Book chapters
Films[11]