Rate My Professor Oneil Hall

Oneil Hall, PhD, is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology (since September 2022) and the Institute of Caribbean Studies (since May 2023) at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. He earned his PhD in History from UWI Cave Hill Campus in August 2022, BA in History from UWI Cave Hill in July 2011, and Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching from The Mico University College, Jamaica, in September 2022. Hall's research centers on Caribbean political history, migration, and urban development, encompassing bibliographic and archival work as well as contracted research for academics from Bates College, Syracuse University, Penn State University, and others. He is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled Entwined Histories: The Cayman – Jamaica Nexus in Colonial and Postcolonial Governance and Migration, 1863–2005.

Hall's teaching experience includes temporary lecturer positions at the Institute of Caribbean Studies (August–December 2023), adjunct tutor in the Department of Government at UWI Mona (2016), full-time teacher at St. Andrew High School for Girls (January 2018–August 2024), and guest lecturer at University College of the Cayman Islands (2012). His peer-reviewed publications feature chapters such as 'Interrogating Roy Bodden’s Scholarship on the Cayman Islands' in The Cayman Islands: History, Politics, and Society (Ian Randle Publishers, 2022), 'The Education System of the Cayman Islands' in The Education Systems of the Americas (Springer, 2021), 'Cayman Islands and the Federation' in The Caribbean in a Changing World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), and 'Africans and Pedro St. James' in the Journal of the University College of the Cayman Islands (2017). He has authored book reviews for Caribbean Quarterly, Journal of Sport History, Jamaica Journal, and Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Hall has presented papers and chaired panels at Caribbean Studies Association conferences on teacher migration, national identity, Cayman-Jamaica relations, and social media in politics; he serves as CSA Council Member (2024–2026) and co-founded CO Research Consultancy (2015–present). Awards include the Silver Pen Award from the Jamaica Gleaner (2015) and UWI Postgraduate Scholarship (2012–2014).