Rhoda Reddock

Emerita Professor of Gender, Social Change and Development

Rhoda Reddock is Emerita Professor of Gender, Social Change and Development and former Deputy Campus Principal of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad, and Tobago. An activist in the Caribbean women’s movement for many years, she is currently an Executive Committee member of the International Sociological Association. With numerous publications, including nine books (two award-winning), and over eighty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, she received the UWI Vice Chancellor’s Award for All-Round Excellence in Teaching and Administration, Research and Public Service, in 2002, the Triennial CARICOM1 Award for Women 2002, a distinguished Fulbright New Century Scholars Award in 2005-2006; and an honorary doctorate from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 2012. Since 2019, she has been an elected expert on the United Nations Committee on CEDAW (The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women).