Marisa Fuentes

Assistant Professor, Women's & Gender Studies and History

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

B.A., UC Santa Cruz

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
162 Ryders Lane
Douglass Campus
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-9331

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

My current manuscript-in progress explores the spatial, historical, and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in two eighteenth-century British Atlantic port cities: Bridgetown, Barbados and Charleston, South Carolina.  Grounded in archival research and recent scholarship on gender and enslavement, I am interested understanding how the construction of legal, architectural and historical “spaces” marked enslaved women’s bodies and experiences, in life and death.  My work brings together critical historiography, historical geography, anthropology and black feminist theory in my analyses of enslaved women in the urban Atlantic.  My broad research interests include post-colonial theory and analyses of sexuality and gender in the early Black Atlantic World.

AWARDS

• Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University 2009-2010
• Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow for Faculty Diversity, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 2007-2009
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow 2006
• Fulbright Fellow, Barbados 2003

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
• Association of Caribbean Historians
• Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
• American Historical Association