Nicolette Bethel is a Bahamian teacher, writer and anthropologist. She is currently the "Acting Director of Culture" for the Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture of the Bahamas, and a part-time lecturer in Social sciences at the College of the Bahamas .
She studied at the Trinity College of the University of Toronto and at the Corpus Christi College of the University of 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 0333554698).