Dr Jesus Sanjurjo-Ramos
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
History
Personal statement
Dr Jesús Sanjurjo FRHistS is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) & Chancellor’s Fellow in Atlantic World History at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Before joining Strathclyde, he taught at the universities of Cambridge, Cardiff and York. He obtained his PhD in 2018 at the University of Leeds, supported by an AHRC-WRoCAH PhD scholarship. In November 2022, he was elected as a Councillor and Trustee of the Royal Historical Society. Dr Sanjurjo is a historian of the Atlantic World who specialises in radical politics, race, slavery, carceral systems, and state violence in Spain’s Atlantic empire ca. 1700-1900. His first book, 'In the Blood of Our Brothers. Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870' (University of Alabama Press, 2021) was a finalist for the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize. In December 2023, Editorial Comares published its Spanish edition. Since then, Sanjurjo has been working on two major research projects: one focused on the political repression unleashed by the colonial authorities in the aftermath of Manuel Lorenzo’s failed revolution in Santiago de Cuba in 1836 (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) and a second project centred on tracking the genesis of systemic racism in the Spanish Empire’s carceral system (co-directed with Dr Lloyd Belton and funded by the British Library).
Prize And Awards
- Finalist of the Paul E. Lovejoy Book Prize 2023
- Recipient
- 2023
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Recipient
- 2022
Publications
- In the Blood of our Brothers : Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870
- Sanjurjo Jesús
- (2021)
- Con la Sangre de Nuestros Hermanos : Historia del Abolicionismo y del Fin del Comercio de Esclavos en el Imperio Español, 1800-1870
- Sanjurjo Jesús
- (2023)
- 'An exemplary punishment' : state violence and political repression in the aftermath of Lorenzo's Revolution of 1836
- Sanjurjo Jesús
- Economic and Social History Seminar of the University of Glasgow (2024)
- 'An exemplary punishment' : state violence and political repression in the aftermath of Lorenzo's Revolution of 1836
- Sanjurjo Jesús
- Scottish Global History Network (2024)
- An era of emancipation? : Enslaved miners, British capital, and revolution in Spain's Atlantic Empire
- Sanjurjo Jesús
- Irish and British Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century (2024)
- Abolicionismo y el fin del comercio de personas esclavizadas en el Imperio atlántico español, 1800– 1870
- Sanjurjo Jesús
- El otro bicentenario (2024)
Professional Activities
- Using AI to Track Systemic Racism in Historical Carceral Systems
- Organiser
- 18/6/2025
- ¿Estás orgulloso de la esclavitud? Reparaciones y nostalgias imperiales en la Europa del presente
- Keynote speaker
- 27/2/2025
- CONNECTS-UK 4th Open Forum: ‘Global Economics: History is Not the Past’
- Invited speaker
- 5/6/2025
- CONNECTS-UK 2nd European Researchers in the UK Event
- Participant
- 31/3/2025
- Universidad del Norte
- Visiting researcher
- 20/2/2025
- Interview for the podcast 'En Fase Experimental'
- Recipient
- 21/1/2025
Projects
- Black Soldiers of the Caribbean: Race, Slavery and Radical Politics
- Sanjurjo-Ramos, Jesus (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 28-Jan-2025
- The Prison Blueprint: How Colonial Incarceration Forged Modern Racial Injustice
- Sanjurjo-Ramos, Jesus (Principal Investigator) Belton, Lloyd (CoPI) Moshfeghi, Yashar (Co-investigator) Thompson-Brown, Beverley (Co-investigator) Izaguirre, Yaimara (Co-investigator) Weaver, Beth (Researcher) Bardes, John (Researcher) Guyatt, Nicholas (Researcher) Naranjo, Consuelo (Researcher) Barcia, Manuel (Researcher)
- This flagship project encompasses various initiatives to examine the historical origins of systemic racism and class discrimination in contemporary criminal justice systems by bringing together historians, computer scientists specialising in AI, criminologists, philosophers, and justice policy experts. Led by Dr Jesús Sanjurjo (University of Strathclyde) and Dr Lloyd Belton (University of Glasgow), our research is centred on the recent unearthing of a unique historical collection: Havana's Royal Prison Logbooks. Spanning a century (1837-1937), these extraordinary manuscripts from one of the Atlantic's largest colonial prisons contain detailed records of thousands of men, women, and children, both free and enslaved. By connecting this rich historical data with contemporary policy, we aim to directly inform current debates on prison reform and the enduring legacies of racial injustice. The initiative is supported by major grants from the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, and Strathclyde’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Science.
- 01-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Jesus
Sanjurjo-Ramos
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
History
Email: jesus.sanjurjo-ramos@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted