Juanita Debarros
Professor, History

Juanita De Barros is Professor in the Department of History at McMaster University and the former president of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the director of the McMaster University Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice (CHRRJ). She is the co-editor of two book series: “Histories of Slavery and its Global Legacies” (Cambridge University Press) and “Confronting Atrocity: Human Rights and Restorative Justice” (McGill-Queens University Press). She did her PhD at York University and was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the Department of Afro-American and African studies at the University of Michigan. Her research concentrates on the 19th and 20th century Caribbean with a focus on the social history of health, gender, and reproductive rights in the context of imperialism and post-slavery societies. She has written two books, numerous articles and book chapters and has co-edited four essay collections. Her most recent publications are "Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery" and the essay collection, "Public Health and the Imperial Project." Her current (SSHRC-supported) research project explores the intersection of health and the law in the context of child incarceration in state institutions in the early 20th century Caribbean.