Dr Jesus Sanjurjo-Ramos

Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow

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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).

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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

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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

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Dr Jesus Sanjurjo-Ramos
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
History

Email: jesus.sanjurjo-ramos@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted