Marisa J. Fuentes Explained

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]

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fuentes, Marisa. 2020-09-04. history.rutgers.edu.
2. Web site: Dispossessed Lives Marisa J. Fuentes. 2020-09-04. www.upenn.edu.
3. Web site: Book Prize Winners. 2020-09-04. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. en-US.
4. Web site: Caribbean Studies Association » 2017 Award Winner. 2020-09-04. en-US.
5. Web site: admin. 2017-11-20. Congratulations 2017 ABWH Award winners!. 2020-09-04. Association of Black Women Historians. en-US.
6. Book: 2016-12-20. Rutgers University Press. 978-0-8135-9212-1. Fuentes. Marisa J.. 10.2307/j.ctt1k3s9r0. White. Deborah Gray.
7. News: Alexander. Andrea. 2016-11-22. Research connects Rutgers to slavery. A6. The Courier-News. 2020-09-05.
8. Brian Connolly. Marisa Fuentes. 2016. Introduction: From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures?. History of the Present. 6. 2. 105. 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 . en . 22 . 3 . 564–584 . 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01616.x. 143037040 .