Patricia Mohammed

She founded the open-access online peer-reviewed journal Caribbean Review of Gender Studies.

• Name — Patricia Mohammed • Born — 28 February 1954 • Birthplace — 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"

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). 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, 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.

Books • (Editor) (2002). Gendered realities: Essays in Caribbean feminist thought. University of West Indies Press. • (2002). Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad 1917–1947. Springer. • (2016). With Rex Dixon, Travels with a Husband. Hansib,. Peer-reviewed articles • (1998). "Towards indigenous feminist theorizing in the Caribbean". Feminist Review, 59(1), 6–33. • (2000). "'But most of all mi love me browning': The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired". Feminist Review, 65(1), 22–48. Book chapters • (1995). "Writing Gender into History". In Engendering History (pp. 20–47). Palgrave Macmillan. Films • Windows of the Past • The Sign of the Loa • Coolie Pink and Green • The Colour of Darkness • Seventeen Colours and a Sitar