Dr. Kirt Henry

Speaker

Dr. Kirt Henry is a Jamaican-born thinker, researcher, writer, and advocate of CULTURE whose academic interests explore the intersections between dress, identity, spirituality, sexuality, and performance within the African diaspora. In particular, my doctoral study engages a conversation on the materiality and performativity of dressed bodies in ritual spaces of one of Jamaica’s indigenous 19th-century religions – Revivalism. I am currently working on my book manuscript entitled, A Me Dis!: Gender, Identity and Performance in Revivalism. As a practicing academic, He lectures at The UWI, Mona in subject matters engaging African Religious Retentions in the Caribbean, Caribbean Fashion, and Material Culture and Identity in the Caribbean. He is passionate about using heritage, culture, and history as subject categories for the empowerment of marginalized peoples within society. Dr. Henry is the Prime Minister’s National Youth Awardee for Excellence in the category of Academics and also an author in the British Academy’s Writing Programme and a curatorial fellow in the Afro-Caribbean Art program in New York City.