Dalea Bean is a Lecturer at the Regional Coordinating Unit (RCU) of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) UWI, Mona Campus. At the IGDS, she coordinates and lectures in the Graduate Programme and supervises graduate students.

She holds a PhD from UWI, Mona in History on the impact of World Wars I and II on Jamaican Women. Her general research interests include women and gender in Caribbean history, Jamaican history and culture and gender relations in the hotel industry in Jamaica. She has written book chapters, journal articles and papers on these and other topics and has taught at the University of the West Indies in the Department of History, the Open Campus and the IGDS.