Brian Meeks is Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and was
chair of the department from 2015-2021. He was Professor of Social and
Political Change and Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and
Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona until 2015. He has
taught political theory, comparative politics, Caribbean political thought and
African American politics at Michigan State University, Florida International
University, Anton de Kom University in Suriname and the University of the West
Indies, Mona. He has been Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Latin American
Studies at Cambridge University, Visiting Scholar at Brown University and
Visiting Tinker Scholar at Stanford University. He has authored or edited
twelve books and many articles on Caribbean politics and political theory.
Among them are Caribbean Revolutions and
Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada; Narratives
of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean; New Caribbean Thought: a Reader; Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives, Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of
Stuart Hall; The Thought of New
World: the Quest for Decolonisation, M.G. Smith: Social Theory and Anthropology
in the Caribbean and Beyond and Critical
Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory. His novel, Paint the Town Red, was published in
2003. His volume of poetry, The Coup
Clock Clicks was published in 2018. Other poems have appeared in various
anthologies including the seminal Penguin
Book of Caribbean Verse. His new book in the Pluto Press Black Critique series - After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory,
Imagination, Hope - will be published in 2022.
