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Kampala, Uganda, 2013

Jordan Hills, River Jarqa, 1995

                             

ROSALIND BOYD is an independent scholar residing in Montreal and based at McGill University since 1968. Her latest book is The Search for Lasting Peace: Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security published by Ashgate (England) in 2014.  A paperback edition was issued in October 2016 by Routledge.

She was Director of McGill’s Centre for Developing-Area Studies (CDAS) from 1996-2004, the only woman to hold that position since the CDAS was established in 1963. Prior to that, she was the Senior Researcher/Chercheure principale and Editor of the Publications Program at CDAS. From 2006-2008, she was Special Advisor on International Research in the Office of the Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) at McGill. She is the founding Editor (1979-2004) of the international journal, Labour, Capital and Society devoted to critical analyses of development issues and the struggles of labouring people in the Global South. 

For over three decades, she has carried out research activities focusing on social, political and economic problems in over 25 countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. She has also edited over two dozen books dealing with socio-economic and political problems, notably Struggles in the Americas: The Emergence of a New Civil Society(2003) co-edited with S.J. Noumoff; Social Sciences and Transdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian Experiences (1999) co-edited with Alberto Florez-Malagon and the seminal work International Labour and the Third World: The Making of a New Working Class co-edited with Robin Cohen and Peter C.W.Gutkind (1987).

Dr. Boyd has been an elected Executive Council member of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID); member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, 1984-2004; member of the Board of Directors of the Centre des Femmes de Montréal, 1992-1996; on the Conseil d’Édition of Page Deux (Switzerland,1996-1998); a member of the Conseil d’Edition of Sociologie et sociétés, and the International Advisory Network of the Globalisation and Social Exclusion Unit (University of Liverpool, England) and was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of Imago Theatre (Montreal). She continues to be a member of the Network “Eurolatinoamericana Celso Furtado” and Labour, Capital and Society/Travail, capital et societe.

In 1983, she was awarded an IDRC Professional Development Fellowship which allowed her to research and travel in Senegal, India, Sri Lanka and Mexico throughout that year. She has a B.A. from the University of Victoria, B.C. and a Ph.D. in Humanities (Doctorate of Philosophy) from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She speaks English and French with some proficiency in Spanish, Urdu and Yoruba (earned while serving as a CUSO volunteer in Abeokuta, Nigeria).

She is currently completing a personal memoir of her research years in Uganda, focusing on the leadership of the National Resistance Movement and civil society organizations, particularly women’s groups, notably from 1987 until 2001.