Publications

MONOGRAPHS

Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land. NYU Press, 2014. 

Pioneers in Caribbean Disaster Information Management. Co-author with Beverley Lashley. Caribbean Disaster Information Network, University of the West Indies, 2003. 

EDITED WORKS

Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBT Experiences in the Caribbean. Co-editor with Moji Anderson. Under review, UWI Press. 

Let Us Start With Africa: Honouring Rastafari Scholarship. Co-editor with Jahlani Niaah. UWI Press, 2013. 

Caribbean Quarterly. Special Issue on Rastafari. Co-editor with Jahlani Niaah. Summer 2013. 

CREATIVE DIRECTION

King Jammy’s. Editorial and creative director. ECW Press, 2002. 

ARTICLES

“Confronting Culture and Identity: The Jamaica Biennial 2017.” Jamaica Journal Forthcoming. 2018. 

“Notes on a Branding: Subject and Object in Brand Jamaica.” Co-author with Moji Anderson. Social and Economic Studies Vol. 66: 1&2: 2017: 79-101. 

“‘The Only Good System is a Sound System’: The Dub Riddim Revival in Kingston.” Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture Vol 7: 2. 2015. 

“Identity and Image: The Jamaica Biennial 2014.” Jamaica Journal Vol 35: 3. 2015. 

“Repatriation in translation: An interview with Giulia Bonacci.” Jamaica Journal Vol 35:1-2. 2014. 76-77. 

“My Own Private Television.” Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture University of Texas, December 17, Vol 1:6. 2004. http://flowtv.org/2004/12/my-own-private-tv/ 

“The Euclidean Body in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism Fall, Vol 10:3. 2003. 83–96. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Rastafari Strategies: Ethnic Identity, African Diaspora, Residency.” In Exploring Rastafari Livity, (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), forthcoming, 2018. 

“'The ‘Sleng Teng’ dominate bad, bad': Understanding Jamaica’s 'computerized' riddim craze.” Dancehall Reggae Reader, (UWI Press), forthcoming, 2018. 

“Christianity and the King, Matrimony and Marijuana: The Unresolved Ethiopian Relationship with Rastafari.” In Ethiopian Images of Self and Other. Ed. Felix Girke. Wittenberg: Schriften des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien (Universitätsverlag, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), 2014. 

“Space in and around Shashemene: Rastafari in Ethiopia.” In Back to Africa. Ed. Kwesi Kwaa Prah. Johannesburg, South Africa: CASAS, 2012. 407–36. 

“Water Development Projects and Cultural Citizenship: Rastafari Engagement with the Oromo in Shashamane, Ethiopia.” In Rastafari in the New Millennium, Michael Barnett, ed. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012. 89–103. 

“Desperately Seeking Brenda: Writing the Self in Six Feet Under.” In Reading Six Feet Under, Kim Akass and Janet Mccabe, eds. London: I.B. Tauris & Company, 2005. 135–47. 

REPORTS

Ongoing: “Using Team Communication Tool SLACK in the Cégep English Classroom”, Association for the Educational Application of Computer Technology at the Post-Secondary Level (APOP), 2017. 

“Final Report: International Youth Internship Program.” Written for Cuso International and Global Affairs Canada, Montreal 2017. 

“Annual Report: International Youth Internship Program.” Written for Cuso International and Global Affairs Canada, Montreal 2016. 

“Developing an improved Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning System for Cuso International.” Written for Cuso International, Costa Rica, 2014 and updated in 2015. 

“Diasporas for Development: Feedback from Jamaica and Ethiopia.” Written for Cuso International, Accenture and USAID, Kingston, Jamaica, 2014. 

“Assuring Gender Mainstreaming: A Way Forward for Cuso International in Jamaica.” Funded by Cuso International, Kingston, Jamaica, 2013. 

“Youth Access to Justice in Jamaica: Report to Cuso Interational.” Written for Cuso International, Kingston, Jamaica, 2012. 

“Youth Entrepreneurship Programming: Report to Cuso Interational.” Written for Cuso International, Kingston, Jamaica, 2012. 

“Online Teaching: A Study of the Implications for the English Department at Vanier College.” Funded by Faculty of Technologies, Vanier College, Montreal. 2006. 

REVIEWS

“Review: C. Bateman and A.Fingers. 2016. In Fine Style: The Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious.” In Volume! June 2017. 

“Review: Stanley-Niaah, Sonjah. 2010. DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto.” In Small Axe Salon, April 29: Vol 4. 2011. 

“Review: Price, Charles. 2009. Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari identity in Jamaica.” In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale. May, Vol 19:2. 2011. 29–30.