Presented by Dr. Jesús G. Ruiz
Join us for a gallery talk with Dr. Jesús G. Ruiz, assistant professor of Caribbean studies at Vanderbilt University, to explore the exhibition María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold. Ruiz’s talk will dive deeper into the artwork and discuss themes of diaspora, slavery, revolution, and more.
About Dr. Jesús G. Ruiz
Dr. Ruiz is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean whose deeply transnational research focuses on slavery, freedom, and Black political thought in the Atlantic World. He teaches courses on Afro-Latin America, migration in the Americas, and Caribbean studies. He is particularly interested in the history of Haiti and its monumental revolution of 1791–1804, for which he offers a new history in his tentatively titled first book, The Black Royalists: Haiti and A Politics of Freedom in the Atlantic World (under contract with Harvard University Press).
He received his PhD From Tulane University in New Orleans and was previously an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow at Duke University. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Ford Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. He is an assistant professor of Caribbean studies at Vanderbilt University.
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