Rate My Professor Steeve Buckridge

Buckridge's research interests encompass Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa, British Caribbean and Slavery, Gender and Sexuality, Clothing as Material Culture, and Costume and Fashion Studies. He has conducted research in various African countries on customs in dress, textiles, and weaving techniques, and has published and presented numerous papers on dress practices among Caribbean enslaved people. His scholarship is interdisciplinary, exploring dynamics of race, class, and gender. Key publications include The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica 1760-1890 (University of the West Indies Press, 2004), which investigates how enslaved and freedwomen used fashion and dress to resist slavery and accommodate white culture in pre- and post-emancipation Jamaica; and African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class and Gender (Bloomsbury Press, 2016), which examines the production of lace-bark by African women and its role in Jamaica's history and culture. He has received several research grants and fellowships, including the Ford Foundation Fellowship and the Fulbright Scholars Award.