She works at the intersection of biography and history, focusing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape on Barbados.
Archaeology below the Cliff
A detail from the 2014 work, Saccharum officinarum; Queen Anne's Lace is on the cover of this first book-length archaeological study of a non elite white population on a Caribbean plantation. Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society, is written by Matthew C. Reilly, assistant professor of anthropology at the City College of New York and a collaborator with Annalee Davis on the Unearthing Voices interdisciplinary project.
Colonial Blackness
Professor of History at Rutgers University, Herman Bennett, selected this relief print, Putting on My Blackness, 1987, for the cover of his book, Colonial Blackness - A History of Afro-Mexico, published by Indiana University Press, 2009.
Caribbean Journeys
Caribbean Journeys is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural meaning of migration and home in three families of West Indian background that are now dispersed throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Great Britain. Moving migration studies beyond its current focus on sending and receiving societies, Karen Fog Olwig makes migratory family networks the locus of her analysis. For the people whose lives she traces, being “Caribbean” is not necessarily rooted in ongoing visits to their countries of origin, or in ethnic communities in the receiving countries, but rather in family narratives and the maintenance of family networks across vast geographical expanses.
Coming Home to the Self
Feminist Studies, first published in 1972, is the oldest continuing scholarly journal in the field of women's studies published in the U.S. Contents of the journal reflect its commitment to publishing an interdisciplinary body of feminist knowledge, in multiple genres (research, criticism, commentaries, creative work), that views the intersection of gender with racial identity, sexual orientation, economic means, geographical location, and physical ability as the touchstone for its intellectual analysis. Whether drawn from the complex past or the shifting present, the work that appears in Feminist Studies addresses social and political issues that intimately and significantly affect women and men in the United States and around the world.