Department of History and Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

Professor
Email: lomarsh.roopnarine@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2494
Location: Dollye M.E. Robinson Building, Office 339

DEGREES:
Ph.D. – Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Albany – State University of New York (2002)
M.A. – Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Albany – State University of New York (1997)
B.A. – Ibero-Latin American History, University of Albany – State University of New York (1994)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Caribbean History
Latin American History
Labor Migration

COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate:
HIST 101: History of Civilization I
HIST 102: History of Civilization II
HIST 327: History of Colonial Latin America
HIST 328: History of Modern Latin America
HIST 329: History of Caribbean
HIST 344: Historiography
HIST 447: Research Seminar for the Project
HIST 448: Independent Study

Graduate:
HIST 531: History of Caribbean
HIST 532: Seminar in the Latin American History
HIST 545: Historical Criticism and Historiography
HIST 546: Research Seminar
HIST 551: Caribbean Migration and Identity
HIST 590: Thesis
HIST 591: Project Writing

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Association of Caribbean Historians
African Heritage Studies Association

PUBLICATIONS:

Book Publications:
Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018.

Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.

Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2007.

Edited Books:
Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Indian Indenture and Migration, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Rachel Kurian, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Ashutosh Kumar. Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2025.

Nationalism, Transnationalism and Identity in the Age of Post-Slavery Indenture and Migration, edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Kalpana Hiralal, Cristiana Bastos and Lomarsh Roopnarine, Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2023.

The Legacy of Indian Indenture: Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Migration and Diaspora. Maurits Hassankhan, Lomarsh Roopnarine and Hans Ramsoedh (Eds), New Delhi: Manohar Publisher & Distributors, 2016.

Book Chapters:
“Not so Anchored: Remigration of Indians within the Caribbean Region” In Indenture and After: Gender, Agency and Resistance Amongst South Asian Overseas Migrants. Crispin Bates (ed), pp 148-164, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

“Berbice and Beyond: My Improbable Journey” In Girmitiyas: The Making of Their Memory-Keepers from the Indian Indentured Diaspora, Brij Lal (ed). Pp 21-32. New Delhi Primus Books, 2022.

“The African Caribbean Experience: Continuity and Change” In Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora, Mario Azevedo (ed), pp. 181-192, Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press 2018.

“Three Controversial issues in Guyana: Border controversy, Out- Migration and Landownership” The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities, Clinton Beckford (Ed). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publisher, 2018.

Journal Articles:
“Biographies of two Indians during indenture in Danish St. Croix and British Guiana” Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies Vol. 2. No. 2 (2025): 101-118.

“Petro-Expectation and Agitation in Guyana’s Extractive Oil and Gas Industry: Renegotiation, Pre-Investment Costs, Auditing, and Taxation” Latin Americanist Vol. 69. No. 4 (2025): 373-397.

“South Asian Diaspora in the Caribbean.” In The Oxford Research of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.1131.

“Brij Lal’s Subaltern Approach to the Study of Indian Indenture” Indenture Papers: Studies on Girmitiyas, Vol. 3 (2023): 13-24.

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