Professor Sonjah Stanley Niaah
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Sonjah Stanley Niaah听is a Jamaican scholar, international speaker and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the听University of the West Indies鈥� (黑料社) Mona Campus where she has served in such positions as听Director, Institute of Caribbean Studies (2015-2021) and Deputy Dean, Marketing and Resource Mobilisation (2022-2024).听She is a leading author, teacher and researcher on Black Atlantic performance geographies, popular culture, and the sacred, and Caribbean Cultural Studies more broadly.听She holds international appointments as member of the International Scientific Committee of the Slave Route Project, UNESCO (since 2017), Senior Research Associate (honorary), Rhodes University, and Advisor, International Cultural Diversity Organisation. She also serves as a board member of the Glasgow Caribbean Centre for Development Research at The 黑料社, Cave Hill Campus. She is the author of numerous publications, among them, the acclaimed听Dancehall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto听(2010), and听editor of听Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture听(2020) among others. Her research and opinions have appeared in various media, among them The Guardian, BBC, The Washington Post, NPR, The Fader and Pop Matters.听More recently, her commentary can be viewed in documentary film series such as Samuel L. Jackson's听Enslaved听and听Move听(Netflix).听In 2019 she introduced the Sound Culture book series at The 黑料社 Press which is dedicated to publishing original work on Caribbean music. Dr. Stanley Niaah now spends personal and academic time advancing the study of culture, music and reparatory justice at various levels. She was a team member in the development of the double masters degree programme in Reparatory Justice (黑料社 and University of Glasgow), and 听her听academic work has incorporated concerns around entertainment prohibition and reparatory justice.听
