Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

90 After completing her undergraduate degree in History at UWI’s Mona campus in 1966, Brereton went on to pursue a Master’s in History at the University of Toronto in Canada. She then returned to the West Indies, this time to the UWI’s St. Augustine Campus for a PhD on the social history of Trinidad. Since earning her PhD in 1972, Brereton has been a permanent fixture at the History Department at St. Augustine, teaching at one level or another. She is most well known for her extensive scholarly work, publications and research on the history of Trinidad and Tobago and of the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean since the end of slavery. She has authored several books, book chapters and many journal articles on the topic. Brereton has also helped to pioneer the field of gender and women’s history in the Caribbean. She was a trail blazer in the 1980s, creating both courses and the materials used to teach those courses in the field when it was just emerging. Brereton is also a past president of the association of Caribbean Historians, and has served as Head of Department, Deputy Campus Principal, and Interim Campus Principal at the UWI. Among her books are Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective (1995) and History of Modern Trinidad, 1783-1962 (1981) and Book of Trinidad (with Gerard Besson) (1991). In 1996 she received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence for Research, Teaching and Administration KNOLLY A. BUTLER (1931-2019) P rofessor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery, University of the West Indies (UWI), Butler is an outstanding surgeon and educator who played a major role in developing the teaching of medical sciences at UWI. In his 40-plus years of service as a medical educator, he has trained and mentored hundreds of doctors from the Caribbean region. Born in Mayaro, Knolly Alan Butler attended primary school in San Fernando, St. Benedict’s College San Fernando and St. Mary’s College, Port of Spain. He studied medicine at London University, England. Butler returned to Trinidad in 1967 to start a medical training