Faculty of Humanities and Education
Tara A. Inniss is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus. She is Coordinator of the MA Heritage Studies and Co-Convener of The UWI/ University of Glasgow MSc/ MA Reparatory Justice Programme. The areas of focus for her teaching and research include: history of medicine; history of social policy; reparatory justice; heritage and social development. In 2002-03, she received a Split-Site Commonwealth PhD Scholarship to study at the UWI/ University of Manchester. In 2007, she completed a Masters in International Social Development at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. While on Sabbatical in 2025-26, she has been a Visiting Scholar at Jesus College and in the Faculty of History/ McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. She is a recipient of the CaribOx Travel Grant at Oxford University in May/ June 2026.
Dr. Inniss currently serves as Chair for the National Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Committee. She has also served as a delegate for the Government of Barbados on the UNESCO World Heritage Committee and the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). She currently is a Member of Council for the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and Trustee for the Commonwealth Heritage Forum. She is a past Secretary-Treasurer for the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH).
PhD History, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus (2008)
MSD, University of New South Wales (2007)
CUTL, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus (2011)
BA Hons., York University (2001)
Japanese Funds-In-Trust (JFIT)/ UNESCO World Heritage Nomination for the Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and Rum and Sustainable Heritage Tourism Programme (Caribbean)
St. Kitts Stipendiary Magistrate Documentation Project
"Caribbean Signposts for New Directions in Caribbean Archaeology: A Commentary". Eds. John Cherry and Mirian Rothenberg. New Directions in Caribbean Archaeology. Taboui Monograph Series, Sidestone Press: 279-86
‘One British Archive: “Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives”. Journal of British Studies. Cambridge UP 2026. doi:10.1017/jbr/2025.10177
“Tribute to Pedro L.V. Welch (1950-2025): The Gentleman Scholar”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. 2025 LXXI: 222-38.
With Kevin Farmer. “Barbados Monkey Jar”. In Global Goods and the Country House: Comparative Perspectives, 1650-1800. Ed. Jon Stobart. UCL Press, 2023: 245-48.
With Amalia Levi. “Decolonizing the Archival Record about the Enslaved: Digitizing the Barbados Mercury Gazette”. Archipelagos: A Journal of Caribbean Digital Praxis. 2020 4. http://archipelagosjournal.org/
"Of Roots and Routes: Visioning Barbados' Cultural Heritage through Trails Development — The Barbados Trailway". In Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: Past, Present, and Future Research Directions. Eds. Maaike De Waal, Niall Finneran and Matthew Reilly. Sidestone, 2020: 383-394.
“Femme affranchie et femme légitime: Un héritage inequitable à la Barbade (XVIIIe siècle)”. Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire – Le genre dans les mondes caribéens. 2019 50: 125-138. https://journals.openedition.org/clio/16857
“‘Distempered, Maimed and Worn Out’: Some Perspectives on Slavery and Disability in Barbados and Antigua”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. 2019 LXV: 1-21.
With Marcia Pilgrim and Garry Hornby. (2018). “Selective secondary school education in Barbados: the need for change”. Journal of International and Comparative Education. 2018 7(2): 111-126.
"Of Roots and Routes: Visioning Barbados' Cultural Heritage through Trails Development — The Barbados Trailway". In Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: Past, Present, and Future Research Directions. Eds. Maaike De Waal, Niall Finneran and Matthew Reilly. Sidestone, 2018
“From Codrington to Cave Hill: University Heritage in Transition”. Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. LXII 2017: 48-65.
History of medicine; family history; genealogy; Barbados; Barbadian history; heritage
