Jesús Sanjurjo is a doctor-researcher at the Leverhulme and Isaac Newton Foundations at the University of Cambridge, a professor at Corpus Christi College, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the United Kingdom. Before joining Cambridge, he taught at the universities of Cardiff and York. He earned his Ph.D. in 2018 at the University of Leeds with the support of an AHRC-WRoCAH doctoral scholarship. 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 prestigious Paul E. Lovejoy Award. In December 2023, the Spanish edition of the book will be published by the Comares publishing house. His current research project, titled Black Soldiers of the Caribbean, explores the intersection of radical politics, slavery, and (self)emancipation in the Caribbean during the Era of Revolutions.
