Her next project focuses on the seventeenth-century slave trade, capitalism, and captive disposability. Fuentes's research has been funded by several institutions, including the Ford Foundation, Harvard University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and, most recently, University of Oxford's Balliol College as the Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow. Marisa Fuentess compelling study of womens lives in and around Bridgetown leaves the reader with a clear sense of who these women were and how they navigated the terrain of a Caribbean slave society. She is a coeditor of Scarlet and Black, Volume One: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History (2016), Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945 (2020), and "Slavery and the Archive," a special issue of History of the Present (November, 2016). ' Dispossessed Lives exemplifies the best new historical scholarship on slavery and gender.
Her first book, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016), won book prizes from the Caribbean Studies Association, the Association of Black Women Historians, and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Fuentes is the Presidential Term Chair in African American History and an associate professor of women's and gender studies and history at Rutgers University.
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