My research interests centre on Caribbean indenture diaspora studies, the role of memory work in constructions of community, and the subversion of colonial archives through re-examining concepts of materiality and provenance. In addition to my studies, I am a co-founder of Ro(u)ted by Our Stories, a community-based oral history archive for Indo-Caribbean women and those of marginalised genders. I write creative non-fiction and poetry, and enjoy connecting with my Caribbean heritage through recreating familial recipes. I am currently an uninvited guest on the ancestral and stolen lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxw.7mesh (Squamish), and lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Research interests: Carribean and indenture archives; de-/anti-colonial archival practices and pedagogy; community records; personal records.

Persaud, D. (2024). Review of Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory, edited by John A. Aarons, Jeannette A. Bastian, and Stanley H. Griffin. Archivaria, 98, 201–203.

Ro(u)ted by Our Stories Collective. (2021). Stories the mangroves hold: Reflections on Indo-Caribbean feminist community archiving. Journal for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies, 1(1), 63–83. https://doi.org/10.13169/jofstudindentleg.1.1.0063