110:, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. Between 1976 and 1979 he served as chair of the Department of Government. In 1986 he was appointed Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the St. Augustine campus. After the institute was merged into the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute and Economic Studies, Ryan remained campus director until 2003.
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political scientist and pollster. Ryan has been described as "the author of record for the nation's modern political history" and "the most prolific and influential intellectual in post-colonial
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415:"Professor Selwyn Ryan dies at 86"
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