Dr. Debbie McCollin has been a Lecturer at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago since 2012. She holds a PhD in History (2010) and a Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (2014) from the aforementioned university.
Her recent publications include World War II and the Caribbean edited with Karen E. Eccles (UWI Press, 2017), the 2016 edited work In the Fires of Hope: Essays on the Modern History of Trinidad and Tobago 1962-2012, “An Altered Landscape: Malaria Control and Environmental Transformation in Trinidad and Tobago 1941 – 1962” (Jaime Larry Benchimol and Isabel Amaral, eds. Medicina e Ambiente: Articulações e Desafios no Passado, Presente e Futuro), Chacachacare: The Island of Lepers 1922-1979” in Hospitals and Communities 1100–1960 (Chris Bonfield, ed., Peter Lang, 2013), Friend or Foe: Venereal Disease and the American Presence during World War II (History in Action Journal, 2010) and “Health, Services and Women in Trinidad and Tobago 1938-1962”, a chapter in Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean 1800-1968 (De Barros et al ed. Routledge, 2009).
Her current research is focused on the Pre-Independence era in Trinidad and Tobago, the History of Health and Medicine in the West Indies in the twentieth century, the impact of World War II on the West Indies and Digital History.
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