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Current Member

Marisa J Fuentes

Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Early Modern Black Atlantic World

Home Institution

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Marisa J. Fuentes is interested in histories of Atlantic slavery and critical historical methods. While at IAS, she will work on a book about discarded captives from the transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.

Honors

2020-2021
Barra Sabbatical Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2024
Member, American Antiquarian Society
2023
Fellow, Society of American Historians

Appointments

Rutgers University-New Brunswick
2009
Associate Professor
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
2017
Presidential Term Chair in African American History