Bridget Jones Award for Caribbean Studies
We would like to pay tribute to the late Bridget Jones, scholar and long-time supporter of the Society, who died on April 4th 2000. In Bridget's memory, we offer a travel bursary of £650 plus full conference fees to enable an arts practitioner from any region of the Caribbean to present their work at the Society's annual conference. The recipients of the Bridget Jones Award are as follows:
2011
Annalee Davis, Visual Artist, Barbados
Her 2011 Bridget Jones lecture was entitled ‘Has the Plantation Complex Fallen?’
2010
Erna Brodber, writer and academic, Jamaica.
Jamaican academic and novelist, Erna Brodber, has done pioneering research on Caribbean oral histories and helped to bring nation languages into the mainstream of world literature. Erna holds a Jamaican Musgrave Gold Award for Literature and Orature, and her novel Myal won the Caribbean and Canadian section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her 2010 Bridget Jones lecture was entitled ‘History in the Service of Community Development’.
2009
Carolyn Allen, theatre director, writer, performer and scholar, Jamaica.
In her career as a theatre director, writer, performer and scholar, Carolyn Allen has made a substantial contribution to the Caribbean arts well beyond the shores of her native Jamaica. Her 2009 conference presentation, ‘Break the Waters of the Deep…Set the Echoes Free’, discussed a multi-media collage of testimony and imaginative interpretation of the experience of capture and crossing.
2008
André Eugne, artist, sculptor and one of the founders of the Grand Rue Artists' Collective in Port au Prince, Haiti.
2007
Kendal Hippolyte, poet, social critic and performance artist, St Lucia.
2006
Kei Miller, poet and short story writer, author of 'Kingdom of Empty Bellies' (The Heaventree Press 2005), Jamaica.
2005
Rosina Santana Castellón, visual artist, public art project on Vieques, Puerto Rico.
2004
Dr Olive Lewin.
2003
Dr Felix Kindelan Delis, researcher in Afro-Cuban cultural forms, Cuba.
2002
Stanley Greaves, fine artist, Guyana.
2001
Elizabeth Watson, Media Librarian of UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados.