Angela E . Roe | University of Curaçao (original) (raw)

Dr. Angela Roe is a Dutch and Curaçaoan anthropologist, lecturer, writer, producer, and filmmaker. Being born and raised in the Netherlands of a white Dutch father and a black Surinamese/Curaçaoan mother set the tone for her academic interests, which revolve around race relations, racism, identity, the performativity of blackness, colonialism, decolonization, the African Diaspora, and social and environmental sustainability.

In 2014 Roe produced Sombra di Kolò (The Shadow of Color), a feature documentary based on a qualitative study regarding race relations in Curaçao. With this film, which was shown in the Netherlands, the US and across the Caribbean, she won the prestigious Boeli van Leeuwen award in 2015.

Roe has MA degrees Cultural Anthropology from the Free University Amsterdam and Florida International University (FIU), an MA degree in Comparative Sociology from FIU, and a PhD in Global and Sociocultural Studies, also from FIU.

Currently, Roe is head of research and assistant professor for the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies at the University of Curaçao, where she teaches Qualitative Research Methodology and Global Citizenship. Since 2018, Roe also partakes as a Caribbean research partner in the NWO Travelling Caribbean Heritage research project, led by Prof. dr. Gert Oostindie and Prof. dr. Alex van Stipriaan.

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