Film Appearances
From the October 3, 2022 article in Rutgers Today:
PBS audiences will get a rare glimpse into the ordinary lives of extraordinary abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass in a pair of new documentaries featuring two Rutgers-New Brunswick historians.
Charles and Mary Beard Distinguished professor of history Erica Armstrong Dunbar, who studies and teaches African American, United States and women’s and gender history, and Marisa Fuentes, Presidential Term Chair in African American history, were tapped by the filmmakers to provide little known anecdotes and everyday details about these larger-than-life figures in Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom and Becoming Frederick Douglass, which premier at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4 and Oct. 11, respectively, on local PBS stations.
Excerpts from PBS’s Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom with interview excerpts from Marisa J. Fuentes:
Watch Becoming Frederick Douglass here:
Watch Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom here:
Videos, Podcasts and Lectures
Marisa Fuentes - Department of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers Univer… - Black Studies Podcast - Mar 12, 2025
The Chorus: A Celebration of the Hartman Trilogy - Johns Hopkins University - Center for Africana Studies - Diaspora Solidarities Lab - Apr 21, 2023
Marisa J. Fuentes, Asso. Professor, Rutgers University, Author: Dispossessed Lives - Enslaved Wo… - The Sonja Haynes Stone Center's Spring Writer's Discussion Series - Mar 6, 2021
#MoreThanDiversity Presents: Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations - Part I - University of Chicago - May 27, 2021
Rutgers Scarlet and Black Symposium: Session 4 - Community Project in New Brunswick - Rutgers University - April 29-30, 2021
Rutgers Scarlet and Black Symposium: Session 6: A Conversation with Marisa Fuentes and Deborah Gray White - Rutgers University - April 29-30, 2021
Slavery, Dispossession, and the Way Forward for Universities - Rice University - For more info: taskforce.rice.edu - Oct 1, 2020
Ben Franklin’s World: 173 Marisa Fuentes, Colonial Port Cities and Slavery - Feb 13, 2018
"Dispossessed Lives" with Marisa Fuentes - Revolution Books - An evening with Professor Marisa J. Fuentes on her historical study "Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive" at Revolution Books NYC on September 21, 2017.
Sweeping New Rutgers Report Reveals University's Ties to Slavery & Displacement of Native Americans - Democracy Now - Nov 22, 2016