Rose Mary Allen
Dr. Rose Mary Allen studied Anthropology at the University of Nijmegen, and obtained her doctorate degree at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She has been conducting oral history interviews on the islands of the Dutch Caribbean. She is working as a freelance researcher and as a part-time lecturer in Caribbean studies at the University of Curaçao. She has co-published, edited and published several books and articles on the cultural and social history of Curaçao with special attention on cultural traditions, migration, gender studies and cultural diversity.
In 2015, she was awarded the Cola Debrot Prize, Curaçao’s most prestigious national award in the area of culture, art and science. At the moment, she is setting up a program of Cultural Studies at the University of Curacao. She is the local coordinator of the research program Traveling Caribbean Heritage, a four-year project of the University of Leiden, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, University of Aruba, UNESCO Bonaire and the University of Curaçao. She is also the local coordinator of the project Cultural practices of citizenship under conditions of fragmented sovereignty: gendered and sexual citizenship in Curacao and Bonaire, of the University of Curaçao and the University of Amsterdam.
