Nolda Römer-Kenepa

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Nolda Cira Römer-Kenepa
Acting Governor of Curaçao
In office
25 June 2013 – 3 June 2019
Preceded byAdèle van der Pluijm-Vrede
Succeeded byMichèle Russel-Capriles
Personal details
Born (1953-01-03) 3 January 1953 (age 71)
Willemstad, Netherlands
OccupationArchivist

Nolda Cira Römer-Kenepa (born 3 January 1953) is a Dutch historian and archivist. She served as acting governor of Curaçao from 2013 to 2019.

Early years

Nolda Cira Kenepa was born in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands, on 3 January 1953. Her parents were Bicente Paulo Kenepa and Wilhelmina Ramona (Nucatia) Kenepa.[citation needed] She studied modern history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her 1980 doctoral study was on Vrouwenleven op Curaçao: Laat achttiende eeuw en vroeg negentiende eeuw (Women's Lives in Curaçao: Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century). In it she was one of the first to consider the marginalization of women in Curaçao during the slave period. Enslaved women were doubly exploited due to their color and gender.

Career

From 1980 to 1988 Römer-Kenepa was a history researcher at the History Archives Center in Curaçao. She qualified as a Higher Archivist from the Archiefschool, The Hague, in 1992. She was deputy director of the History Archives Center from 1980 to 1990, when she became director of the center. In 1991 she became coordinator of the working group on history in the Government Consultative Mechanism between Curaçao and the Netherlands. She became a member of the government advisory board on Curaçao monuments in 1991.[citation needed]

In 2013 Römer-Kenepa was decorated as a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. On 25 June 2013 the Acting Governor of Curaçao, Adèle van der Pluijm-Vrede, swore in her deputy Römer-Kenepa as second acting governor at Fort Amsterdam. Römer-Kenepa was acting governor of Curaçao for six years. On 3 June 2019 the governor, Lucille George-Wout, replaced her as acting governor by Michèle Russel-Capriles.

Römer-Kenepa was a member of the executive council of CARBICA, the Caribbean regional branch of the International Council on Archives (ICA) from 1994 to 2006. She organized the International African Diaspora Congress in 2003 and the second Annual conference on the Preservation of Archives in Tropical Climates. She was host of the International Conference of the Round Table on Archives (CITRA) in Curaçao] in 2006, and from 2008 to 2012 was vice-president (CITRA) of the ICA. In November 2019 Simon Chu, Adrian Cunningham and Nolda Römer-Kenepa were awarded Fellowships by the ICA.

Publications

  • Römer-Kenepa, Nolda C. (1980), Vrouwenleven op Curaçao: laat achttiende eeuw en vroeg negentiende eeuw : hoofdvakskriptie "nieuwe tijd", p. 93
  • Gibbes, F. E.; Römer-Kenepa, Nolda C.; Scriwanek, Max A. (1999), De bewoners van Curaçao, vijf eeuwen lief en leed 1499-1999, Stichting Curaçao 1499-1999, p. 251, ISBN 978-99904-0-327-5
  • Römer-Kenepa, Nolda C. (2006), Hospital St. Elisabeth 1855 - 2005: 150 Aña Di Kuido Ku Amor, De Curaçaosche Courant, p. 119, ISBN 978-99904-0-644-3
  • Römer-Kenepa, Nolda C. (2012), Brief History of Curaçao, National Archives Curaçao, p. 35, ISBN 978-99904-1-616-9, retrieved 24 November 2020
  • Römer-Kenepa, Nolda C. (2013), Presidente di Parlamento di Antia Ulandes i di Kòrsou: number dos den herarkia estatal : 75 aña demokrasia parlamentario, De Curaçaosche Courant, p. 153, retrieved 24 November 2020
  • Gibbes, F. E.; Römer-Kenepa, Nolda C.; Scriwanek, Maximiliaan A. (Max) (2015), De Curacaoënaar in de geschiedenis 1499 - 2010: dediká na e yu'i Kòrsou, Stichting Nationale Geschiedenis, p. 287, ISBN 978-99904-60-11-7

Notes

  1. ^ The acting governor of Curaçao replaces the governor in the event of illness or absence, and replaces the governor after resignation or death.

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Nolda Römer-Kenepa beëdigd.
  2. ^ Römkens 2017, p. 94.
  3. ^ Pieter Hofmann 2013.
  4. ^ Farewell to Mrs. Nolda Römer-Kenepa...
  5. ^ a b Simon Chu ... awarded ICA Fellowship.

Sources

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