Wazir Mohamed
Professor, Sociology
Coordinator International Studies Program
Tom Raper 266
(765) 973 8250
wmohamed@iue.edu
Education
- Ph.D. Binghamton University, 2008 (Sociology)
- MA. Binghamton University, 2003 (Sociology)
- BSC. University of Guyana, 1998 (Communication)
Current Research-Book Projects
- Dynamics of Caribbean Diaspora Studies II, University of Guyana Press. (In process with expected publication date Fall 2024)
- Reflections on Walter Rodney. Inidaf Press, Felix Houphouet Boigny University, Cote D'Ivoire. (Manuscript expected to be finished December 2024)
Current Teaching Interest
- Global Classroom-IUE/Pakistan (2025)
- Study Abroad – Amazon Rainforest (2025)
- Study Abroad – Slave Castles and cultural artifacts of Atlantic Slavery (2027)
Recent Publications
- Mohamed, Wazir. 2020. The Global Social Divide: Revisiting How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Book Review-How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. SX Saloon (Small Axe.net), Volume 34, July 2020.
- Mohamed, Wazir. 2019. Local Impact of Global Change: Rice and Sugar in the memory and history of Africans and East Indians in Guyana. In Alissa Trotz & Arif Bulkan (eds.), Unmasking the State: Politics, Society and Economy in Guyana 1992-2015. Kingston: Ian Randle.
- Mohamed, Wazir. 2018. Race and Class Marginalization through the Prism of Globalization of the Rice Industry. In Michaeline Crichlow & Patricia Northover (eds.), Review. Publication of Collection of Papers on the Study of Race and Rurality in the Global Economy. Albany: SUNY Press.
Recent Presentations
- 2023 Development and Underdevelopment: Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and Structural Inequalities in the former Colonies. Center for Afro Brazilian Studies, UFBA, Salvador Bahia. (May 30, 2023)
- 2023 The Problems of Free Labor: Emancipation and Peasant/Proletarian Dimension in British Guiana in the Period of the rise of the Sugar Revolution of the Nineteenth Century. UFBA School of Social Sciences, Bahia, Brazil-May 31, 2023.
- 2023 Approaches to the study of the Caribbean and Developing improved relations between Academics in the Caribbean, the Americas and Brazil. Center for Afro Brazilian Studies, UFBA, Salvador Bahia. (June 2023)
- 2023 The Role of Academia in Diasporic Research and Studies. University of Guyana 2nd Diaspora Studies Conference (May 8, 2023)
International Professional
- Faculty Fellow International Institute of Migration and Diaspora Studies (University of Guyana).
- Editorial Board University of Guyana Press