Marisa J. Fuentes completed her Ph.D. in the Department of African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley in July of 2007.  Her work explores the spatial, historical, and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in two eighteenth-century British Atlantic port cities: Bridgetown, Barbados and Charleston, South Carolina.  Fuentes’ work brings together critical historiography, historical geography, anthropology and black feminist theory to analyze enslaved women in the urban Atlantic.  Her other research interests include studies of power and sexuality, postcolonial studies, and histories of the African Diaspora