Participant Info
- First Name
- Bethan
- Last Name
- Fisk
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- bethan.fisk@bristol.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Bristol
- Website URL
- https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/bethan-r-fisk
- Keywords
- Colombia, New Granada, Slavery, Religion, Africa Diaspora, Caribbean, Atlantic World, Pacific World, Andes
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Bethan Fisk is Senior Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean History in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol. Her book, Black Catholic Worlds: Religious Geographies in Eighteenth-Century Afro-Colombia (Cambridge University Press, 2025), explores the importance of place in shaping black cultural formation. She has a PhD in Latin American and Caribbean History from the University of Toronto, where she was a Natalie Zemon Davis Fellow.
Her second book project, for which she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, explores the interconnected political and cultural histories of people of African descent in Jamaica and the Viceroyalty of New Granada during the eighteenth century.
Bethan is a winner of the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize winner for History for 2026.
- Recent Publications
Black Catholic Worlds: Religious Geographies in Eighteenth-Century Afro-Colombia (Cambridge University Press, 2025) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/black-catholic-worlds/8A01F8CA09AD5B7F18FC014DDCE9B14C
Enslavement between Worlds: Manuel Zapata’s Many Captive Mobilities. Slavery & Abolition, 44(3), 478–495. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2023.2236433
“Transimperial mobilities, slavery, and becoming Catholic in eighteenth-century Cartagena de Indias,” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 28(3), 345–370. https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2022.2140950
“Black knowledge on the move: African diasporic healing in Caribbean and Pacific New Granada,” Atlantic Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2020.1839282
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- https://bsky.app/profile/bethanfisk.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- Colombia, Jamaica
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin America, Pacific
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Gender, Labor, Material Culture, Race, Religion, Slavery, Women
