Kathleen Romoli

Kathleen Romoli (; December 5, 1897 – July 16, 1979) was an American anthropologist, historian, and filmmaker. After making a promotional film for the Gold Platinum mining company, she decided to move to anthropology. She wrote Colombia: Gateway to South America, Balboa of Darien: Discoverer of the Pacific (1953), and Los de la lengua cueva (1987).

Biography Kathleen Martin was born on December 5, 1897, in Santa Rosa, California, to Irish immigrant parents—one of whom worked as a Presbyterian minister. She originally lived in Japan, Mumbai, and Venice, before moving to Park Avenue in New York City for her second husband's job. later forming the basis of Balboa of Darien. Despite being distant, her son arrived in Colombia during her final moments. She had a funeral at the English Cemetery, Málaga. After Romoli's death, her executor Ana María Groot, a close colleague of hers from ICANH, found some of her scattered writings and had them published as .