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Rosemarijn Hoefte

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Rosemarijn Hoefte (1959) is head of KITLV Press and coordinator of the Caribbean Expert Center. She studied History at Leiden University, and Latin American Studies (MA 1982) and History at the University of Florida in Gainesville (PhD 1987). Her dissertation was on British Indian and Javanese indentured labour on the largest plantation in Suriname.

Hoefte’s main research interests include Surinamese history in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of free urban blacks, and the constitutional relation between the Netherlands and the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. She is currently working on a study of the life and times of Grace Schneiders-Howard, a social activist and the first female politician in Suriname and a twentieth-century history of Suriname.

Hoefte is the managing editor of the New West Indian Guide and editor of OSO, Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch gebied. She has published some 50 articles on the Caribbean and Latin America in scholarly books and journals, and the regular press.

Projects:
A History of 20th-Century Suriname

Javanese Migration

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A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.

Selected Publications

‘Learning, Loving, and Living in Early Twentieth-Century Suriname: The Movement of People and Ideas from East to West’, Journal of Caribbean History, forthcoming

‘Grace Schneiders-Howard: A Politician between Controversy and Convention’, Macomere 12-2: 82-94, 2011.

(with Lisa Djasmadi & Hariette Mingoen [comps.]) Migratie en cultureel erfgoed: Verhalen van Javanen in Suriname, Indonesië en Nederland. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2010.

‘The Difficulty of Unhooking the Hookworm: The Rockefeller Foundation, Grace Schneiders-Howard, and Public Health Care in Suriname in the Early Twentieth Century’ in: Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer, and David Wright (eds), Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968,  pp. 211-226. New York: Routledge, 2009.

(With Leo Dalhuisen, Ronald Donk, and Frans Steegh [eds]), Geschiedenis van de Antillen; Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2009.

(With Peter Meel and Hans Renders [eds]), Tropenlevens: De [post]koloniale biografie. Amsterdam: Boom, 2008.

‘Grace Schneiders-Howard: De sociaal-activiste’ in: Rosemarijn Hoefte, Peter Meel en Hans Renders (eds), Tropenlevens: De [post]koloniale biografie, pp. 17-33. Amsterdam: Boom, 2008.

‘The Javanese of Suriname: A History of Colonial Labour and Migration Has Produced a Unique Community Far from Indonesian Shores’,  Inside Indonesia 92, April-June 2008.

'The Lonely Pioneer: Suriname's First Female Politician and Social Activist, Grace Schneiders-Howard', Wadabagei 10-3: 84-103, 2007.

‘Cherchez la Femme and Other Quests in the Historiography of the Postemancipation Dutch Caribbean’, in: Juanita De Barros, Audra Diptee, and David V. Trotman (eds), Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives in Caribbean History , pp. 169-185. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 2006.

'Different Modes of Resistance by British Indian and Javanese Contract Labourers in Suriname', in: Gad Heuman and David V. Trotman (eds), Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean,pp. 143-155. Oxford: Macmillan, 2005.

(With Jean Jacques Vrij) 'Free Black and Colored Women in Early-Nineteenth-Century Paramaribo, Suriname', in: David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine (eds), Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas, pp. 145-168. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

(With Clazien Medendorp), Suriname; Gezichten, typen en costumen: Naar de natuur geteekend door A. Borret. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2003.

(With Peter Meel [eds]), Twentieth-Century Suriname; Continuities and Discontinuities in a New World Society. Kingston: Ian Randle/Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001.

‘The Development of a Multiethnic Plantation Economy; An Introduction to the History of Suriname from circa 1650 to 1900’ in Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel (eds), Twentieth-Century Suriname: Continuities and Discontinuities in a New World Society, pp. 1-22. Kingston: Ian Randle/Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001

‘Dutch Policy in the Caribbean; The Difficulty of Getting it Right’, Itinerario 25-2:59-72, 2001. 

‘Suriname’, in: Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (eds), Countries and their Cultures, pp. 2112-2118. New York: Macmillan, 2001.

(With Gert Oostindie), ‘Historiography of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles’, in: Barry Higman (ed.), General History of the Caribbean, volume VI: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean, pp. 604-630. Paris: Unesco, 1999.

‘Internationale reacties op de revolte en het Nederlandse ingrijpen’, in: Gert Oostindie (ed.), Dromen en littekens: Dertig jaar na de Curaçaose revolte, 30 mei 1969, pp. 147-162. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999.

‘A Passage to Suriname? The Migration of Modes of Resistance by Asian Contract Laborers’, International Labor and Working-Class History 54:19-39, 1998.

In Place of Slavery; A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.

(With Leo Dalhuisen, Ronald Donk, and Frans Steegh [eds]), Geschiedenis van de Antillen; Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 1997.

‘Free Blacks and Coloureds in Plantation Suriname: The Struggle to Rise’, in: Jane G. Landers (ed.), Against the Odds; Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas, pp. 102-129. London: Frank Cass, 1996. [Also published in Slavery&Abolition 17-1:102-129, 1996.]

(With Johanna Kardux [ed]), Connecting Cultures; The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1994.

World Bibliographical Series: Suriname. Oxford, Santa Barbara, and Denver: CLIO Press, 1990.

De betovering verbroken; De migratie van Javanen naar Suriname en het Rapport van Vleuten (1909). Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1990.

‘Control and Resistance; Indentured Labor in Suriname’, Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide 61:1-22, 1987.