Press interviews and blog posts Featured Mar 13, 2025 The Black Studies Podcast Marisa Fuentes - Departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University Mar 13, 2025 The Black Studies Podcast Mar 13, 2025 The Black Studies Podcast Nov 16, 2022 Columbia News A New Edition of Saidiya Hartman’s First Book Has Just Been Published Nov 16, 2022 Columbia News Nov 16, 2022 Columbia News Oct 3, 2022 Rutgers Today PBS Documentaries Demystify Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass With Help From Rutgers Historians Oct 3, 2022 Rutgers Today Oct 3, 2022 Rutgers Today Jan 28, 2022 New York Times “We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was,” by Jamelle Bouie Jan 28, 2022 New York Times Jan 28, 2022 New York Times Nov 25, 2021 Gothamist Rutgers Confronts Its History of Slavery, With Mixed Results Nov 25, 2021 Gothamist Nov 25, 2021 Gothamist Nov 24, 2021 Balliol College Americans visit Slavery in the Age of Revolution exhibition Nov 24, 2021 Balliol College Nov 24, 2021 Balliol College Aug 19, 2021 Share America Memorials can make history more inclusive Aug 19, 2021 Share America Aug 19, 2021 Share America Jul 3, 2020 CBS News Renewed Push To For Rutgers To Change Names Of Buildings That Honor Slave Owners Jul 3, 2020 CBS News Jul 3, 2020 CBS News Feb 25, 2020 Rutgers Today Latest Scarlet and Black Book Explores Lives of Rutgers’ First Black Students Feb 25, 2020 Rutgers Today Feb 25, 2020 Rutgers Today Oct 26, 2017 Rutgers Today Newly Named Campus Landmarks Honor African Americans Linked to Rutgers History Oct 26, 2017 Rutgers Today Oct 26, 2017 Rutgers Today Mar 8, 2017 Full Stop Magazine Interview with Marisa J. Fuentes Mar 8, 2017 Full Stop Magazine Mar 8, 2017 Full Stop Magazine Mar 7, 2017 Black Perspectives “A Violent and Violating Archive: Black Life and the Slave Trade” by Marisa J. Fuentes Mar 7, 2017 Black Perspectives Mar 7, 2017 Black Perspectives Oct 4, 2016 Black Perspectives “Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive: An Interview with Marisa Fuentes” by Emily Owens Oct 4, 2016 Black Perspectives Oct 4, 2016 Black Perspectives Events Featured Sep 10, 2025 Turin Italy Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period Sep 10, 2025 Turin Italy Sep 10, 2025 Turin Italy May 2, 2025 "The Caribbean in the making of the West" - Rutgers High School Teaching Institute May 2, 2025 May 2, 2025 Jan 17, 2025 NIKI & NYU-Florence “Hidden in Plain Sight: Black African Lives and Visual Histories in the Early Modern World” Jan 17, 2025 NIKI & NYU-Florence Jan 17, 2025 NIKI & NYU-Florence Apr 19, 2024 University of Pennsylvania Kaplan Memorial Lecture: "The Unrelenting Archive" with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes Apr 19, 2024 University of Pennsylvania Apr 19, 2024 University of Pennsylvania Sep 28, 2023 Indiana University Department of American Studies “Those Set Aside: Histories of Disposal, Social Death, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” - A Lecture by Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University Sep 28, 2023 Indiana University Department of American Studies Sep 28, 2023 Indiana University Department of American Studies Feb 22, 2023 University of Pittsburgh, Early Modern Worlds “Race, Gender, and Capitalism in Atlantic Perspective” - A workshop with Dr. Jennifer Morgan (NYU) and Dr. Marisa Fuentes (Rutgers) Feb 22, 2023 University of Pittsburgh, Early Modern Worlds Feb 22, 2023 University of Pittsburgh, Early Modern Worlds Oct 20, 2022 Bard College Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck Opening keynote with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes, “Buried ‘Without Care’: Social Death, Discarded Lives, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” Oct 20, 2022 Bard College Oct 20, 2022 Bard College Jun 13, 2022 Centre for Early Modern Studies at King’s College London The Sixth Annual King’s Gollancz Lecture: Marisa J. Fuentes: ‘Buried “Without Care”: Social Death, Discarded Lives, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade’ Jun 13, 2022 Centre for Early Modern Studies at King’s College London Jun 13, 2022 Centre for Early Modern Studies at King’s College London Apr 25, 2022 Brown University Department of History Marisa J. Fuentes | “Buried ‘Without Care’: Social Death, Discarded Lives, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” Apr 25, 2022 Brown University Department of History Apr 25, 2022 Brown University Department of History Mar 18, 2022 UC Riverside - Race and the Premodern Period Race & the Premodern Period (RAPP) presents: A Conversation with Dr. Marisa Fuentes Mar 18, 2022 UC Riverside - Race and the Premodern Period Mar 18, 2022 UC Riverside - Race and the Premodern Period Mar 8, 2022 UT Rio Grande Valley Department of History Rondel V. Davidson Endowed Lecture Series: “Gender, Slavery, and the Archives in the Caribbean” Mar 8, 2022 UT Rio Grande Valley Department of History Mar 8, 2022 UT Rio Grande Valley Department of History Feb 24, 2022 The History and Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz Marisa Fuentes on Attending to Black Death: Black Women’s Bodies in the Archive- Sources of Justice Speakers Series Feb 24, 2022 The History and Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz Feb 24, 2022 The History and Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz Feb 14, 2022 Ole Miss Slavery Research Group University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group #Year400 Lecture Series: “Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: A History of the Human and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Feb 14, 2022 Ole Miss Slavery Research Group Feb 14, 2022 Ole Miss Slavery Research Group Sep 27, 2021 CUNY Graduate Center “Reckoning with Slavery” A Conversation with Jennifer L. Morgan and Marisa J. Fuentes Sep 27, 2021 CUNY Graduate Center Sep 27, 2021 CUNY Graduate Center May 7, 2021 McNeil Center for Early American Studies - University of Pennsylvania McNeil Center for Early American Studies - “Refuse Slaves, Disposable Lives: Rethinking Racial Capitalism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” May 7, 2021 McNeil Center for Early American Studies - University of Pennsylvania May 7, 2021 McNeil Center for Early American Studies - University of Pennsylvania Sep 21, 2020 Rice University Task Force on Slavery Segregation and Racial Injustice Slavery, Dispossession and the Way Forward for Universities Sep 21, 2020 Rice University Task Force on Slavery Segregation and Racial Injustice Sep 21, 2020 Rice University Task Force on Slavery Segregation and Racial Injustice Sep 5, 2019 Folger Shakespeare Library “Race and Periodization” Raceb4Race Conference, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 5-6, 2019 Sep 5, 2019 Folger Shakespeare Library Sep 5, 2019 Folger Shakespeare Library Feb 14, 2019 University of Mississippi. Arch Dalrymple III Department of History “Refuse BODIES, Disposable Lives: A History of the Human & Transatlantic Slave Trade” ft. Marisa J. Fuentes Feb 14, 2019 University of Mississippi. Arch Dalrymple III Department of History Feb 14, 2019 University of Mississippi. Arch Dalrymple III Department of History Jun 10, 2018 Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference, Barbados Out of Line: Confinement and Trapped Bodies, Paper: “Refuse Bodies, Disposable Lives: African Captives and Death in Ports During the Early Atlantic Slave Trade” Jun 10, 2018 Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference, Barbados Jun 10, 2018 Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference, Barbados Nov 7, 2017 Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora “The Archives of Slavery,” with Kaima Glover and Jennifer Morgan, ASWAD, Seville, Spain, November 9, 2017 Nov 7, 2017 Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Nov 7, 2017 Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Nov 13, 2015 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee “Venus: Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence and the British Caribbean Archive”, a talk by Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes of Rutgers University Nov 13, 2015 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Nov 13, 2015 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee