Rose Mary Allen
Curaçaoan anthropologist
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Rose Mary Allen (born 1950) is a Curaçaoan anthropologist, who has published on the oral history of former enslaved people of the Dutch Caribbean islands. Her dissertation, "Di ki manera: a social history of Afro-Curaçaoans, 1863-1917" draws largely on the collected oral histories of Afro-Curaçaoans.[1] She holds a PhD and is a lecturer at the University of Curaçao.
In 2015 she was awarded a knighthood in the Order of Orange-Nassau by the Netherlands[2] and she also won the Cola Debrot Prize.[2]
Sources and references
- ^ "Dr. Rose Mary Allen Documents | Caribseek Documents". Archived from the original on 2015-07-14. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
- ^ a b "Royal Honor 2015". 24 April 2015.