Noga Marmor

Region: Atlantic World; Caribbean; Latin America
Time: 17th Century; 18th Century
Theme: Colonialism; Social History

Noga Marmor is studying the history of royal slavery in the Spanish empire. The Spanish crown owned enslaved individuals across its American territories throughout the colonial period. Her research looks at how the Spanish crown used its ownership of enslaved people to assert its control over people and territory and make its presence felt in its American colonies. She is also interested in the ways individuals enslaved by the crown understood their own position and status and interpreted what it meant to belong to the king, and what it meant for the crown to own people. Her aim is to change the way we understand slavery, imperialism, and the ways these fields are connected, by offering a new image of the Spanish empire as a slave-owning empire. Her previous work examined how individuals interned in a British civilian camp in Jamaica during World War II negotiated with colonial and imperial agents their place within the global imperial order imposed on them. She holds a BA in History and in Sociology-Anthropology, and an MA in History, from Tel Aviv University.