Kumar Mahabir

Kumar Mahabir is an Assistant Professor in the School for Studies in Learning, Cognition and Education at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He did his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Florida.
As a doctoral student, he won a Florida Caribbean Institute Award, an A. Curtis Wilgus Fellowship, and an Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship.

Mahabir received his BA and M.Phil. degrees in Literatures in English from The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

In 2005, he was awarded a travel and research grant by the Ministry of Tourism in India. In the same year, he was awarded a similar grant by the South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS) in the Netherlands to give a lecture at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Mahabir is the author of seven (7) books including two national bestsellers Caribbean East Indian Recipes and Medicinal and Edible Plants used by East Indians of Trinidad and Tobago. He has also published several articles in scholarly journals including the New West Indian Guide, Caribbean Studies, Florida Journal of Anthropology, Toronto South Asian Review, and Caribbean Medical Journal.

Mahabir is also the CEO of the company, Chakra Publishing House, and Co-curator of the Indian Caribbean Museum.

For several years, he has been involved in research on (East) Indian/South Asian culture in the Caribbean. He has done research on Indians in Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada and South Africa.

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