Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Sonjah Stanley Niaah is a Jamaican cultural studies and music scholar, cultural activist and international speaker. She is the first Ph.D. Cultural Studies graduate from the University of the West Indies (UWI), and the first to be appointed Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies there. The inaugural Rhodes Trust Rex Nettleford Fellow in Cultural Studies (2005), Sonjah Stanley Niaah is a former head of the UWI's Institute of Caribbean Studies & Reggae Studies Unit, and is a leading author, teacher and researcher on Black Atlantic performance geographies, popular culture and the sacred, and Caribbean Cultural Studies more broadly. Stanley Niaah is the author / editor of numerous publications.These include Dancehall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto (University of Ottawa Press, 2010); Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture (UWI Press, 2020); Dancehall In/Securities: Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life (Routledge, 2022); A Study on the Creative Industry as a Pillar of Sustained Growth and Diversification - The Film And Music Sectors In Jamaica, UNECLAC Studies and Perspectives Series - No. 72 (2018); ”I’m Broader than Broadway: Caribbean Perspectives on Producing Celebrity' (Wadabagei, Vol. 12: 2, 2009); and ‘Of Sacred Crossroads: Cultural Studies and the Sacred’ (Open Cultural Studies Vol. 3, No.1, 2019).