Talk by Marisa Fuentes of Rutgers University

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Marisa Fuentes

Friday, November 13 – Africology will host a talk by Marisa Fuentes of Rutgers University’s History and Women’s & Gender Studies departments.

Fuentes earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work brings together critical historiography, historical geography, anthropology and black feminist theory in her analyses of enslaved women in the urban Atlantic. Her broad research interests include post-colonial theory and analyses of sexuality and gender in the early Black Atlantic World.

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