Press interviews and blog posts Featured March 13, 2025 The Black Studies Podcast Marisa Fuentes - Departments of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University March 13, 2025 The Black Studies Podcast March 13, 2025 The Black Studies Podcast November 16, 2022 Columbia News A New Edition of Saidiya Hartman’s First Book Has Just Been Published November 16, 2022 Columbia News November 16, 2022 Columbia News October 3, 2022 Rutgers Today PBS Documentaries Demystify Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass With Help From Rutgers Historians October 3, 2022 Rutgers Today October 3, 2022 Rutgers Today January 28, 2022 New York Times “We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was,” by Jamelle Bouie January 28, 2022 New York Times January 28, 2022 New York Times November 25, 2021 Gothamist Rutgers Confronts Its History of Slavery, With Mixed Results November 25, 2021 Gothamist November 25, 2021 Gothamist November 24, 2021 Balliol College Americans visit Slavery in the Age of Revolution exhibition November 24, 2021 Balliol College November 24, 2021 Balliol College August 19, 2021 Share America Memorials can make history more inclusive August 19, 2021 Share America August 19, 2021 Share America July 3, 2020 CBS News Renewed Push To For Rutgers To Change Names Of Buildings That Honor Slave Owners July 3, 2020 CBS News July 3, 2020 CBS News February 25, 2020 Rutgers Today Latest Scarlet and Black Book Explores Lives of Rutgers’ First Black Students February 25, 2020 Rutgers Today February 25, 2020 Rutgers Today October 26, 2017 Rutgers Today Newly Named Campus Landmarks Honor African Americans Linked to Rutgers History October 26, 2017 Rutgers Today October 26, 2017 Rutgers Today March 8, 2017 Full Stop Magazine Interview with Marisa J. Fuentes March 8, 2017 Full Stop Magazine March 8, 2017 Full Stop Magazine March 7, 2017 Black Perspectives “A Violent and Violating Archive: Black Life and the Slave Trade” by Marisa J. Fuentes March 7, 2017 Black Perspectives March 7, 2017 Black Perspectives October 4, 2016 Black Perspectives “Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive: An Interview with Marisa Fuentes” by Emily Owens October 4, 2016 Black Perspectives October 4, 2016 Black Perspectives Events Featured September 10, 2025 Turin Italy Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period September 10, 2025 Turin Italy September 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 January 17, 2025 NIKI & NYU-Florence “Hidden in Plain Sight: Black African Lives and Visual Histories in the Early Modern World” January 17, 2025 NIKI & NYU-Florence January 17, 2025 NIKI & NYU-Florence April 19, 2024 University of Pennsylvania Kaplan Memorial Lecture: "The Unrelenting Archive" with Dr. Marisa J. Fuentes April 19, 2024 University of Pennsylvania April 19, 2024 University of Pennsylvania September 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 September 28, 2023 Indiana University Department of American Studies September 28, 2023 Indiana University Department of American Studies February 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) February 22, 2023 University of Pittsburgh, Early Modern Worlds February 22, 2023 University of Pittsburgh, Early Modern Worlds October 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” October 20, 2022 Bard College October 20, 2022 Bard College June 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’ June 13, 2022 Centre for Early Modern Studies at King’s College London June 13, 2022 Centre for Early Modern Studies at King’s College London April 25, 2022 Brown University Department of History Marisa J. Fuentes | “Buried ‘Without Care’: Social Death, Discarded Lives, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” April 25, 2022 Brown University Department of History April 25, 2022 Brown University Department of History March 18, 2022 UC Riverside - Race and the Premodern Period Race & the Premodern Period (RAPP) presents: A Conversation with Dr. Marisa Fuentes March 18, 2022 UC Riverside - Race and the Premodern Period March 18, 2022 UC Riverside - Race and the Premodern Period March 8, 2022 UT Rio Grande Valley Department of History Rondel V. Davidson Endowed Lecture Series: “Gender, Slavery, and the Archives in the Caribbean” March 8, 2022 UT Rio Grande Valley Department of History March 8, 2022 UT Rio Grande Valley Department of History February 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 February 24, 2022 The History and Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz February 24, 2022 The History and Civics Project @ UC Santa Cruz February 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.” February 14, 2022 Ole Miss Slavery Research Group February 14, 2022 Ole Miss Slavery Research Group September 27, 2021 CUNY Graduate Center “Reckoning with Slavery” A Conversation with Jennifer L. Morgan and Marisa J. Fuentes September 27, 2021 CUNY Graduate Center September 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 September 21, 2020 Rice University Task Force on Slavery Segregation and Racial Injustice Slavery, Dispossession and the Way Forward for Universities September 21, 2020 Rice University Task Force on Slavery Segregation and Racial Injustice September 21, 2020 Rice University Task Force on Slavery Segregation and Racial Injustice September 5, 2019 Folger Shakespeare Library “Race and Periodization” Raceb4Race Conference, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., September 5-6, 2019 September 5, 2019 Folger Shakespeare Library September 5, 2019 Folger Shakespeare Library February 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 February 14, 2019 University of Mississippi. Arch Dalrymple III Department of History February 14, 2019 University of Mississippi. Arch Dalrymple III Department of History June 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” June 10, 2018 Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference, Barbados June 10, 2018 Association of Caribbean Historians Annual Conference, Barbados November 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 November 7, 2017 Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora November 7, 2017 Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora November 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 November 13, 2015 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee November 13, 2015 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee