Rose Marie Adelheid Leonie (Rosemary) Höfte (Sittard, June 11, 1959) is a Dutch historian and surinamist. She publishes under the name Rosemary Hoefte.
Hoefte was born in Sittard and grew up in Maastricht. She studied history at the University of Leiden and at the University of Florida in Gainesville. At this institution, she graduated in 1987 on a thesis on British Indian and Javanese contractual work in Suriname, Plantation Labor after the abolition of slavery: the case of plantation Marienburg (Suriname), 1880-1940. An editing thereof appeared as In Place of Slavery (1998).
Rosemary Hoefte was head of the Caribbean Department and then head of Collections of the KITLV in Leiden and editor of the New West Indies Guide / New West Indian Guide. She is on behalf of the KITLV editor of the magazine for Surinamistics, Oso. In addition to those magazines, articles in, among others, Latin American, Boletín de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe, Hemisphere published a magazine of Latin American and Caribbean affairs, Intermediate, International spectator: Journal of International Politics, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Slavery & amp; abolition: a journal of comparative studies, international labor and working-class history, the women's history magazine Historica and Wadabagei: journal of the Caribbean and its diaspora, and in different bundles. She was co-compiler of the Caribbean Abstracts series. Book publications Also see
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