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Dr. Tara Inniss
Dr. Alana Johnson
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Dr. Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo
Dr. Elaine Rocha
Dr. Cleve Scott
Dr. Alvin Thompson
Dr. Pedro Welch

Dr. Tara A. Inniss, PhD (UWI) MSD (UNSW) BA (York)
Temporary Lecturer
Tel.: (246) 417-4934
Fax: (246) 417-9615
E-mail: tara.inniss (at) cavehill.uwi.edu

Brief Bio:

Tara A. Inniss is a recent PhD graduate in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Her PhD dissertation entitled, “‘Fed with the Bread of Slavery’: Children’s Health in Barbados during Slavery and the Apprenticeship Period, 1790-1838” explored the state of enslaved and freed children’s health in plantation society. In 2002-03, she was the recipient of the Split-Site Commonwealth PhD Scholarship which allowed her to study at the Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. In 2007, she completed a Masters in International Social Development at the University of New South Wales in Sydney where she focused on disability rights, international public health and forced migration.

Research Interests:

Caribbean History; History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Social Development; Caribbean Heritage

Select Publications:
“‘Any elderly, sensible, prudent woman’: The Practice and Practitioners of Midwifery during Slavery in the British Caribbean”. Eds. David Wright and Juanita De Barros. Studies in the Social History of Medicine Series: The History of Health and Medicine in the Circum Caribbean. Routledge: New York, 2009.

Comprehensive Report to Inform the Presentation by the Government of Barbados to the Annual Ministerial Review of the United Nations Economic and Social Council on Barbados’ Progress Towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the Other Internationally Agreed Development Goals. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Barbados/ United Nations Development Programme. 2007.

With Brown, L. “The Slave Family in the Transition to Freedom: Comparative Perspectives on the Experiences of Afro-Caribbean Women”. Women and Slavery. Volume II: Modern Atlantic. Ohio University Press. 2007 (Also published in Slavery & Abolition200526 (2): 257-269.)

“From Slavery to Freedom: Children’s Health in Barbados, 1823-1838”. Slavery and Abolition. 2006 27(2): 251-260

“Children’s Health in British Caribbean Slave Society: Sir Hans Sloane’s Medical Descriptions in late 17th Century Jamaica” Nantes-Afrique-Ameriques: Les Anneaux de la Memoire 2003 5: 179-195.