Dons, Yardies and Posses: Representations of Jamaican Organised Crime

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Project partners

Key network participants

Dr Lucy Evans (Principal Investigator), Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature, Department of English, University of Leicester, UK 
Dr Rivke Jaffe (Co-Investigator), Professor of Cities, Politics and Culture, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Kelsyn Delaney, (Network Administrator), Doctoral Student, School of English
University of Leicester, UK

Network participants

Professor Ben Bowling, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, King's College London, UK 
Dr Michael Bucknor, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Dr Ronald Cummings, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Brock University, Canada
Dr Petrina Dacres, Head of Art History, Edna Manley College of Visual Art and Performance, Kingston, Jamaica
Dr Sharae Deckard, Lecturer, School of English, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Renee Figuera, Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Humanities, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
Dr Donette Francis, Associate Professor of English, University of Miami, USA
Carol Leeming, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Leicester, UK
Professor Martin Halliwell, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor of American Studies in the Centre for American Studies and the Department of English, University of Leicester, UK
Angella Harris, Citizen Security and Justice Programme III (Ministry of National Security), Jamaica
Professor Anthony Harriott, Professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice and Security, Department of Government, UWI, Mona, Jamaica
Dr Suzette Haughton, Lecturer, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Dr Donna Hope, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute for Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit, UWI, Mona, Jamaica
Dr David Howard, Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Dylan Kerrigan, Lecturer in Anthropology and Political Sociology, UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad
Horace Levy, Deputy Chairman of the board of the Peace Management Initiative and Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice, Jamaica
Dr Jovan Scott Lewis, Assistant Professor of Geography and African-AMerican Studies, University of California, USA
Dr Emiel Martens, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Zakiya McKenzie, Doctoral Student, University of Exeter, UK
Tracian Meikle, Doctoral Student, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Professor Wayne Modest, Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies, Vrijie Universiteit, Amsterdam
Professor Karim Murji, Graduate School, University of West London
Dr Patricia Noxolo, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Alana Osbourne, Associate Researcher, Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr Kim Robinson-Walcott, Editor of Caribbean Quarterly, UWI, Mona, Jamaica
Dr Suzanne Scafe, Associate Professor in Caribbean and Postcolonial Literatures, London South Bank University, UK
Dr Faith Smith, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and English, Brandeis University, USA
Dr Deborah Thomas, Professor, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Wendell Wallace, Lecturer, Criminology Unit, UWI, St. Augustine

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