Oliver Benoit, PhD, MFA - St. George's University

Professor of Sociology
Email: obenoit@sgu.edu
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Phone: (473) 444 4175 Ext. 3251

Biography

Oliver Benoit is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at St. George’s University. Dr. Benoit holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University in the U.S.A. and an M.F.A. degree from Plymouth University, U.K. As an artist, his paintings are in oil, acrylic, and encaustic, which have been an act of political or social commentary. His stimulating, multi-layered works present challenging interactions between his powerful themes and the textures and colours which bring them forth. Oliver Benoit’s work’s emotional, intellectual, and aesthetic power is not without his sociological insight. Benoit’s paintings are found in private collections in many countries, including England and Scotland in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Japan, and Israel, as well as on public display at Grenada Embassy in Washington, DC. U.S.A.; Grenada Development Bank, Grenada museum; Museum of Nature and Culture Convention of Biodiversity, Montreal, QC. Canada.

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Selected Publications

Japal, E & Benoit, O. (2017) "A Sociological Perspective of Alcohol use in the Caribbean," in International Public Health Journal, Vol. 9 No. 1. Nova Science Publishers ( 2012)

"T. A. Marryshow and the Problems of National Identity Formation In Grenada," (Book Chapter). Islands and Britishness: A Global Perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing; (2011)

The Question of National Identity and the Institutionalisation of the Visual Arts in Grenada. Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 17. No 3, Pages 561-580. (2007)

"Ressentiment and the Gairy Social Revolution." Small Axe, Issue 22, (Vol. 11 No 21), pages 95-111.
In 2020 he published two chapters, "Ressentiment, Nationalism and the Emergence of Political Culture in Grenada" and Heritage and National Consciousness: Bricks as Methodology and Metaphor, in The Research Handbook on Nationalism. Liah Greenfeld & Zeying Wu (Eds.) Oxford: Edward Elgar. (2020).

His most recent publication is, "Lewis, L.D & Benoit, O. Lewis, L. The Education System of Grenada: The Place of National Identity in Educational Development" Springer (2021).