Nicolette Bethel is a Bahamian teacher, writer and anthropologist. She is currently the Director of Culture in The Bahamas, and a part-time lecturer in Social sciences at the College of the Bahamas. She studied at Trinity College in the University of Toronto and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she got a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 2000. While she has published several poems and short stories, and co-written and co-produced several plays for theatres of the Bahamas, she is arguably best known as an expert for Junkanoo, a Bahamian festival at Christmas. She is also the editor and expander of her father's book on the festival: E. Clement Bethel; Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas (Macmillan Caribbean 1992, ISBN 0-333-55469-8).
