Marisa J. Fuentes

Marisa J. Fuentes is a writer, historian, and academic from the United States. She is an Associate Professor of Women & Gender Studies and History and the Presidential Term Chair in African American History at Rutgers University, where she has taught since 2009. ^[1]

Career

Fuentes is a historian of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world; her work focuses more specifically on slavery, race, gender, and sexuality in the early modern Caribbean. Her book Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016), which developed new historical methodologies for understanding and thinking about the difficult-to-access experiences of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, ^[2] won the 2016 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, ^[3] the 2017 Caribbean Studies Association Barbara Christian Prize, ^[4] and the 2017 Association of Black Women Historians Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award. ^[5]

Fuentes is also the co-editor of the volume Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History (2016) ^{[6] [7]} and the co-editor of a 2016 special issue of History of the Present on the ethical and historiographical challenges faced by scholars writing about slavery. ^[8] Currently she is Consulting Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Publications

Books

• Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive in the Urban British Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
• Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, Volume I co-edited with Deborah Gray White (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016)

Journals and Articles

• “Slavery and the Archive” (special issue) History of the Present co- edited with Brian Connolly 6:2 (November 2016): 105-215
• “Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled Archive. ”Gender & History Volume 22(3) November 2010: 564-584. ^[9]

References

1. "Fuentes, Marisa". history.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
2. "Dispossessed Lives | Marisa J. Fuentes". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
3. "Book Prize Winners". Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
4. "Caribbean Studies Association » 2017 Award Winner" . Retrieved 2020-09-04.
5. admin (2017-11-20). "Congratulations 2017 ABWH Award winners!". Association of Black Women Historians. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
6. Fuentes, Marisa J.; White, Deborah Gray, eds. (2016-12-20). Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History. Rutgers University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1k3s9r0. ISBN   978-0-8135-9212-1.
7. Alexander, Andrea (2016-11-22). "Research connects Rutgers to slavery". The Courier-News. pp. A6. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
8. Brian Connolly; Marisa Fuentes (2016). "Introduction: From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures?" . History of the Present. 6 (2): 105. doi:10.5406/historypresent.6.2.0105.
9. Fuentes, Marisa J. (November 2010). "Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen's Troubled Archive: Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen's Troubled Archive" . Gender & History. 22 (3): 564–584. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01616.x. S2CID   143037040.