Patsy Lewis

Patsy Lewis is a Professor at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her research focuses on the development challenges of small states, which she has approached from a variety of research perspectives. Much of her writing has focused on the regional integration processes of small Caribbean states, specifically the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), assessing the utility of regional organisations as a mechanism for shoring up the sovereignty of their members and their viability in a changed global context. Patsy Lewis Co-ordinates research clusters at SALISES on Regional Integration and Grenada. She is currently engaged with colleagues on a research project,’ Navigating Crises in a Small State: A Grenada Case Study’, which examines the role of community organisations in periods of crises in Grenada. She is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society, has served as a Visiting Scholar, King's College, Cambridge (1991-1992) and was a Rockefeller Post Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Center of African and Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan (1996-1997). She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies Mona where received a BA Mass Communications, First Class honours, and the University of Cambridge, Trinity College, where she pursued an MPhil in International Relations and a PhD in history.