GKSL Award Winners

GKSL AWARDEE YEAR BOOK TITLE
Brinsley Samaroo 2023 The Blackest Thing in Slavery was not the Black Man: the last testament of Eric Williams
Marisel C. Moreno 2023 Crossing waters: Undocumented migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art
Krystal Nandini Ghisawan 2022 Erotic Cartographies
Nicole Charles 2022 Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados
Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis 2019 Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
Lomarsh Roopnarine 2018 The Indian Caribbean
Katherine Zien 2018 Sovereign Acts: performing race, space and belonging in Panama and the Panama Canal Zone
Raphael Dalleo 2017 American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
Krista A. Thompson 2016 Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice
Neil Roberts 2016 Freedom as Marronage
Rosamond S. King 2015 Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination
Olive Senior 2015 Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and The Building of the Panama Canal
Kathleen Lopez 2014 Chinese Cubans: A Transitional History
Gaiutra Bahadur 2014 Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Erica Caple James 2013 Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti
Malik W. Ghachem 2013 The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
Sherry Johnson 2012 Climate & Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy 2011 Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Matthew J. Smith 2010 Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict and Political Change, 1934-1957
Lauren Derby 2010 The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
Peter A Roberts 2009 The Roots of Caribbean Identity. Language, race and ecology
Richard Price 2009 Travels with Tooy: History, memory and the African American Imagination
Maureen Warner-Lewis 2008 Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian
Steven Gregory 2007 Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic
Sybille Fischer 2007 Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution