Martina Amoksi obtained her PhD degree in September 2023 at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam with a dissertation on the historical analysis of the influence of the multinational SBM/Suralco on Maroon communities in Suriname. She studied history at the Institute for the Training of Teachers (IOL) where she obtained her MO-B diploma and completed her master’s degree in history at the university of Amsterdam. 

Currently, she is a full-time lecturer at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. As a research fellow at KITLV she works on the research project ‘Kawina Ndyuka and Pamaka Maroon historical and contemporary use of Traditional Territory’.

Since 2007 she has been doing research on the Maroons in Suriname and has written various articles and given presentations nationally and internationally about the Maroons. Her book was published in 2009: De Marronvrouw in de stad. Een historische analyse van de invloed van urbanisatie op Marronvrouwen in Suriname, in the NiNsee/Amrit series.