He, Him, His

Assistant Professor

History

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Marquez is currently on leave during the academic year of 2022-2023 while on fellowship with the Omohundro Institute at The College of William & Mary.

John Marquez joined Colorado College in 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Latin American History. Before coming to Colorado Springs, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2019) and was a Chancellor’s ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine (2019-2020).

In 2020, he was awarded the Omohundro Institute-National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship to support the completion and publication of his book manuscript, which explores the entangled histories of freedom, law, and the colonial archive in the South Atlantic world.

Professor Marquez specializes in the history of the African diaspora in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean and the Atlantic world. His research explores legal thought, archival knowledge, kinship and community, intellectual exchange, and experiences of freedom among Africans and their descendants in 17th and 18th-Century Brazil. His research has been published in the Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) and in Slavery & Abolition (2022). His research has been funded by the Fulbright-Hays Program, the Conference on Latin American History, and the Mrachek Fellowship from Colorado College.

At Colorado College, he teaches on various aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history, emphasizing their transnational, transimperial, and global dimensions.