Dr. Dalea Bean is a Senior Lecturer and Graduate Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Office at The University of the West Indies. Before working with the IGDS, she taught in the Department of History at The UWI in the areas of women’s history and Caribbean history. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts at The UWI in African and Caribbean History and Political Science and graduated with first-class honours in 2002. She then completed her Ph.D. in History on the topic “Jamaican Women and World Wars I and II”. She has been the recipient of awards for scholastic achievements, including the Inaugural Robert Marley Scholarship and Walter Rodney Prize for African History.
Her areas of teaching include Feminist Theorising, Gender and Political Activism and Mobilisation, Gender and Conflict Situations among others. Her general research interests include women and gender justice in Caribbean history, women in conflict situations, and gender relations in the Caribbean hotel industry and Caribbean masculinities. She has written books, book chapters, journal articles, and has presented numerous lectures internationally on these and other topics. She has also conducted gender equity and gender mainstreaming training regionally and has been engaged in research with the IGDS that facilitates gender mainstreaming in education, history writing, and masculinity studies. Her first single-authored book: “Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change” was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2017. She has also written “Jamaican Women of Distinction: Holding up more than Half the Sky” commissioned and published by the RJR Gleaner Communications Group.
Dr. Bean serves on the Editorial Board of The Caribbean Journal of Strategic and Security Studies and Identity Papers: A Journal of British and Irish Studies and is also the reviews editor for Jamaican Historic Review. She is also Assistant Chief Examiner for CSEC History. She is also A Distinguished President of the Kiwanis Club of Young Professionals Jamaica, which allows her critical engagement in youth advocacy and service to children and vulnerable communities in Jamaica. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, singing, travelling, and spending time with friends and family.