Dr. Stanley H. Griffin

Stanley H.  Griffin is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in Archival and Information Studies in the Department of Library and Information Studies (DLIS) respectively at The University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica Campus. He holds a BA (Hons.)  in History, a PhD in Cultural Studies (with High Commendation), from the Cave Hill Barbados Campus of The University of the West Indies, and an MSc in Archives and Records Management (Int’l), University of Dundee, Scotland. 

Starting his career at the UWI Cave Hill Campus, Dr Griffin’s university service included roles such as Archives (Administrative) Assistant at the West Indies Federal Archives, Assistant University Archivist, in the UWI’s University Archives and Records Management Programme.  In the DLIS, Dr Griffin served as Departmental Coordinator for the Graduate Programme in Archives and Records Management as well as Coordinator for graduate matters and coordinator for the MPhil/PhD Studies in Information Studies. In the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Dr Griffin served as Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Matters, chair of the Faculty’s Information Technology Cmte, and on the Faculty Management committee. 

As Head of DLIS since 2024, Dr Griffin is credited with conceptualizing and implementing the holistic “Review, Renew, Revitalize” departmental strategy which is revolutionizing the department’s public image, curricula, and offerings. This includes the retirement of longstanding flagship programmes, the Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS), Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies (MALIS), and the Bachelor of Arts in Librarianship (BA LIBS) as well as the writing of new programmes the Master of Library and Information Management (MLIM) and Bachelor of Arts in Digital Information Studies, and the revised Master of Arts in Archives and Records Management and new postgraduate diploma programmes in Archives Administration and Information Governance as well as the Department’s new arm for micro credential learning, the DLIS Information Institute. 

To date, Dr Griffin has an impressive record of peer-reviewed publications: two (2) co-edited books, two (2) co-edited special journal issues, eight (8) single-authored book chapters, seven (7) journal articles (4 single-authored), with three (3) more book chapters and one (1) journal article accepted for publication. In addition, Dr Griffin has produced five (5) technical reports, has presented papers at numerous conferences and seminars and received two (2) Principal’s Awards for Most Outstanding Research Activity (2023/2024, 2021/2022).

Dr Griffin’s work has been recognized by his peers, as witnessed by his many specially invited and keynote lectures, including the Migrated Archives Seminar and Workshop Series (University College London, October 2022), the UWI Mona Library Preservation Week keynote lecture (October 2023), the Kenneth Karmiole Distinguished Lecture in Archival Studies (UCLA, January 2024), keynote lecture at the Joint Conference of the Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Societies and Councils of Archivists (New Zealand, October 2024), the Library Association of Trinidad and Tobago (May 2025), and the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (August 2025) and the Annual Archives Lecture, Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, UNISA (December 2025)

Dr Griffin’s record of postgraduate supervision is equally impressive. Since 2019, He has supervised over 45 graduate research papers in Archival Studies, Library Studies and Heritage Studies, and is supervising five (5) M.Phil students (in Information Studies and History), and three (3) PhD students (Cultural Studies and Theology).

His research interests include Multiculturalism in Antigua and the Eastern Caribbean; the Cultural Dynamics of intra-Caribbean migrations; Archives in the constructs of Caribbean culture; and Community Archives in the Caribbean. His publications include Decolonizing the Caribbean Record: An Archives Reader (Litwin 2018), and Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory (Routledge, 2022) co-edited works with Jeannette Bastian and John Aarons, several book chapters and journal articles on Caribbean archival, cultural, historical, and memory issues. Stanley is active on the executive of several academic, heritage, and archival professional societies, including the Caribbean’s archival association, CARBICA, and is a member of the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion and the Advisory Board for the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, City University of New York (CUNY).
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