I am Senior Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean history in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. My research focuses on black knowledge and cultural geographies in New Granada (Colombia) and the Caribbean. My teaching explores black and indigenous knowledge production, slavery, and religion in Spanish America and the early modern world. I co-supervise three PhD students working on religion, race, gender, and colonialism in the Iberian world. 

I am co-director of Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio and a member of the Centre for Black Humanities management team, and an Ordinary Member of the Society for Caribbean Studies commitee.

My book Black Catholic Worlds: Religious Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Afro-Colombia was published by Cambridge University Press's Afro-Latin America series in September 2025. 

Centring the lived experiences of enslaved and free people of colour, Black Catholic Worlds illustrates how geographies and mobilities – between continents, oceans, and region – were at the heart of the formation and circulation of religious cultures by people of African descent in the face of racialisation and slavery. This book examines black Catholicism in different sites – towns, mines, haciendas, rochelas, and maroon communities – across New Granada, and frames African-descended religions in the region as “interstitial religions.” People of African descent engaged in religious practice and knowledge production in the interstices, in liminal places and spaces that were physical sites but also figurative openings, in a society shaped by slavery. Bringing together fleeting moments from colonial archives, Fisk traces black religious knowledge production and sacramental practice just as gold, mined by enslaved people, again began to flow from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic world.

In 2023 I co-edited a special issue of Slavery & Abolition, Captive Mobilities: Movement, Slavery, and Knowledge Production in the Iberian World with José Lingna Nafafé.

My second project, for which I received the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship which I held from 2020-2023, explores black mobilities and shared histories of slavery and freedom between Jamaica and Colombia. My manuscript in progess, Enslavement Between Empires: Black Life from Jamaica to New Granada examines imperial entanglement through slavery across spaces rarely imagined together. It retells the history of one leg of the transimperial slave trade and slavery—that between Jamaica and New Granada—from the bottom up, with a focus on the lives of the enslaved people ensnared in its webs of captivity. In doing so, the book seeks to disrupt “making strangers out of people who are not” (to quote Eduoard Glissant) by remembering how arbitrary slave trade trajectories separated Africans and captives from Jamaica from their kin—moving them across oceans and seas—while sketching the contours of the world that they made, one that is rarely the object of study. It argues that the “transimperial Greater Caribbean” was a space one made by the mobilities of multiple constituents; captives and fugitives circulated knowledge across the boundaries of empire and language long before the “Age of Revolutions.” Enslaved people moved around the Greater Caribbean and across imperial boundaries throughout the early modern period. Indeed, bondspeople were profoundly aware of those geopolitical boundaries and the myriad ways that the clash of empires in the region shaped their lives. Their lives tell us how fragile the boundaries between English and Spanish America were on the ground—indeed every island except Barbados changed hands at least once.

In 2026 I won the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History - one of only five awarded every three years in the discipline. The £100,000 prize will support my research will support my about understandings and experiences of the night in the Caribbean from 2026 to 2029. While many experiences of the night are universal, the Caribbean’s collision of cultures and early, violent route to modernity presents unique offerings to how its inhabitants lived after dark, including but not limited to astronomy, ritual, race, politics, silence, storytelling, sex, criminality, technology, and death. The book will examine how indigenous, black, and European peoples attributed significance to, feared, and transformed the night in the British, French, and Spanish Antilles and the circum-Caribbean, from before the arrival of Europeans to the advent of electricity, c.1480-1900.