Her recent journal articles include “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery,” in Small Axe; “Accounting for ‘The Most Excruciating Torment’: Trans-Atlantic Passages” in History of the Present and “Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism” in Social Text.  In addition to her archival work as an historian, Morgan has published a range of essays on race, gender, and the process of “doing history,” most notably “Experiencing Black Feminism” in Deborah Gray White’s edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (2007).

Morgan serves as the Council Chair for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture.  She is the past-Vice President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and is a lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians.  She lives in New York City.

Marisa J. Fuentes is the Presidential Term Chair in African American History and Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Her publications include Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (2016) and is co-editor of Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, Volumes I, II, & III (Rutgers University Press, 2016, 2020, 2021) and History of the Present special issue: “Slavery’s Archive” (2016). Her most recent work appears in Small Axe, English Language Notes, and Diacritics. Fuentes’s new research focuses on the transatlantic slave trade, racial capitalism, and black disposability.