Faculty and Staff: Halimah DeShong
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Temporary Lecturer
Dr Halimah DeShong is a Commonwealth Scholar who completed her doctoral studies at the University of Manchester in 2010 with a thesis entitled Gendered Negotiations: Interrogating Discourses of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). She holds a BA (first class honours) in History with Literatures in English from the UWI, Cave Hill Campus and an MPhil in Social Policy from the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), UWI, Cave Hill Campus. She received a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to read for the MPhil. Dr. DeShong has just completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Gender Excellence (GEXcel) at the University of Linkoping, Sweden.
Research interests include:
feminist epistemology, theory and methodology; the sociology of gender and interpersonal violence (particularly intimate partner violence), gender and public policy, and gender and popular culture.
Forthcoming Publications:
“What Does It ‘Really’ Mean to Be a Wo/Man?: Narratives of Gender by Women and Men.” In Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender (Chapter 5), edited by Eudine Barriteau. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press (Forthcoming).
“Gender, Sexuality and Sexual Violence: A Feminist Analysis of Vincentian Women’s Experiences in Violent Heterosexual Relationships,” Under Review (Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies)
Academic awards:
Centre for Gender Excellence 2010
(GEXcel) Postdoctoral Fellowship
Commonwealth Scholarship 2006-2009
tenable at the University of Manchester for PhD research
Wellcome Trust Fellowship 2004-2006
tenable at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, for MPhil research
Valedictorian 2004
Graduation Ceremony, UWI, Cave Hill Campus
Stabex Scholarship 2001-2004
awarded by the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for national service in the sport of netball
Halimah was also awarded various Department and Faculty prizes from the Faculty of Humanities and Education between 2001 and 2005.
Conference and seminar papers:
“Negotiating Gender in Violent Heterosexual Relationships: Discursive Strategies in Vincentian Men’s and Women’s Accounts of Violence,” European Criminological Society Conference, University of Edinburgh, September 2008.
“The Relationship between Theory and Method in Social Research,” PhD Socio-Legal/Criminology Seminar Series, University of Manchester, November 2007.
“Gendering Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Implications for Caribbean Research,” Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) Conference, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, March 2007.
“Understanding Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Masculinity in Male Partner Violence,” SALISES Conference, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, March 2006.
“Men and Intimate Partner Violence in Barbados,” Seminar Paper presented at SALISES, May 2005.