Rose Mary Allen (born 1950) is a

Curaçao Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela. Curaçao includ ...

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

, who has published on the

oral history Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews. These interviews are conducted with people who pa ...

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. She holds a

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and is a lecturer at the

University of Curaçao The Dr. Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez University of Curaçao, formerly University of The Netherlands Antilles (UNA; ), is the state university of Curaçao. It is a public university, graduating approximately three hundred students per year. Th ...

. In 2015 she was awarded a knighthood in the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau () is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has performed acts of special merits for ...

by the Netherlands and she also won the Cola Debrot Prize.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Rose Mary Living people 1950 births Dutch women anthropologists 20th-century anthropologists 21st-century anthropologists Academic staff of the University of Curaçao Dutch anthropologists