Michelle Rowley

Michelle Rowley is an assistant professor in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Maryland. Her research interests address issues of gender and development, representations of black maternal identities, and the politics of welfare.

Her publications include “Crafting Maternal Citizens? Public Discourse of the ‘Maternal Scourge’ in Social Welfare Policies and Services in Trinidad,” “A Feminist’s Oxymoron: Globally Gender-Conscious Development,” and “When the Post-Colonial State Bureaucratizes Gender: Charting Trinidadian Women’s Centrality Within The Margins.”

Her book, Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean: Envisioning a Politics of Coalition, examines Caribbean state responses to gender mainstreaming efforts and explores the necessary but marginalized roles that women’s embodiment, and sexual minorities play in the quest for gender equity.