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 practioner/researcher 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:
2001
Elizabeth Watson, Media Librararian of UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados.
2002
Stanley Greaves, fine artist from Guyana, received the award.
2003
Dr Felix Kindelan Delis from Cuba, researcher in Afro-Cuban cultural forms.
2004
Dr Olive Lewin. See here for a report on the 2004 conference and more about Dr Lewin.
2005
Rosina Santana Castellón, visual artist, public art project on Vieques.
2006
Kei Miller, Jamaica, Poet and Short Story Writer, Author of 'Kingdom of Empty Bellies' (The Heaventree Press 2005)
2007
Kendal Hippolyte, St Lucia, poet, social critic and performance artist
2008
André Eugène, Haiti, artist, sculptor and one of the founders of the Grand Rue movement (an artists' collective)