Colleen Vasconcellos, Ph.D.

Professor of History
Department of Art, History, and Philosophy College of Arts, Culture, and Scientific Inquiry

678-839-6032
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Colleen Vasconcellos, Ph.D.

The Atlantic World, Latin America and the Caribbean; The African Diaspora; Comparative Slavery and Emancipation; Childhood and Gender Studies; Girlhood

Dr. Vasconcellos's second book Slavery, Abolition, and Childhood in Jamaica, 1788-1838 was published by the University of Georgia Press as part of their Early American Places Series in April of 2015. Her first book Girlhood: A Global History, an edited volume of essays on Girlhood in World History with Jennifer Hillman Helgren, was published in 2010 by Rutgers University Press as part of their Series in Childhood Studies. In addition to researching a project examining the changing nature of girlhood in the colonial Caribbean, Dr. Vasconcellos is also working on a project that examines the Yulee Family in Antebellum Florida.

  • B.A., History, Western Carolina University, 1995
  • M.A., American History, East Tennessee State University, 1998
  • Ph.D., Atlantic Studies, Florida International University, 2004

Fall 2023 Sections

Summer 2023 Sections

Fall 2022 Sections

Summer 2022 Sections

Spring 2022 Sections

Fall 2021 Sections

Summer 2021 Sections

Spring 2021 Sections

Fall 2020 Sections

Summer 2020 Sections

  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E05
  • HIST-4580 (American Foodways) Section: E02

Spring 2020 Sections

  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02
  • HIST-6686 (Golden Age of Piracy) Section: 01

Fall 2019 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E08
  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 81G
  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E06
  • HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 2DW

Summer 2019 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E03
  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 04G

Spring 2019 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03G
  • HIST-2111 (US Hist I(to 1865)-Honors) Section: 25H
  • HIST-4481 (Atlantic World Slavery) Section: E03
  • HIST-6686 (Atlantic World) Section: 01

Fall 2018 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 04G
  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865) Honors) Section: 25H
  • HIST-4485 (History of American Foodways) Section: E02
  • HIST-6687 (History of American Foodways) Section: 01

Summer 2018 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03G
  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02

Spring 2018 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03G
  • HIST-2111 (US Hist I(to 1865)-Honors) Section: 25H
  • ENGL-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies) Section: 1DW
  • HIST-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies) Section: 1DW
  • HIST-4481 (American Slavery) Section: E02

Fall 2017 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01G
  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E01
  • HIST-4310 (Comparative Slavery & Emancipa) Section: 01W

Summer 2017 Sections

  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02

Spring 2017 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 04G
  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E01
  • HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01D

Fall 2016 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02
  • HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01D
  • HIST-6684 (Historiography) Section: 01

Summer 2016 Sections

  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E01
  • HIST-4481 (Comparative Slavery) Section: E01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E01
  • HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01D
  • HIST-3326 (Colonial Latin America) Section: 02W

Fall 2015 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
  • HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02
  • HIST-4385 (Latin American Women) Section: 01W
  • HIST-5385 (Latin American Women) Section: 01W
  • HIST-6481 (Women in World History) Section: E01
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 01
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 02
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 03

“Finding Enslaved Children’s Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative,” in Ricia A. Chansky (ed.), Auto/Biography in the Americas: Relational Lives (Routledge, 2016).

“The Process: Finding Enslaved Children’s Place, Voice, and Agency within the Narrative,” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 30:1 (2015): 17-29.

“From Chattel to Breeding Wenches: Girlhood in a Jamaican Slave Community,” in Jennifer Hillman Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos (eds.) Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers University Press, 2010): 325-343.

“Introduction,” (with Jennifer Hillman Helgren), in Jennifer Hillman Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos (eds.) Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers University Press, 2010): 1-13.

“’To Fit You All for Freedom:’ Jamaican Planters, Afro-Jamaican Mothers, and the Struggle to Control Afro-Jamaican Children during Apprenticeship, 1833-1840,” Citizenship Studies 10 (2006): 55-75.

“Junkanoo and the British Caribbean,” The Atlantic Millenium 6 (2001): 102-114.

“Youth Culture as a Battleground: Atlantic World Slavery and Enslaved Youth in Jamaica,” inJames Marten (ed.), Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture (Oxford University Press, 2023): 97-112.

Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838. Early American Places Series (Georgia, 2015).

“American Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade,” in Thomas Buchanan and Aaron Astor (eds.),Slavery: Interpreting American History, Interpreting American History Series (Kent State University Press, 2021): 158-177.

Editor (with Jennifer Hillman Helgren), Girlhood: A Global History (Rutgers, 2010; Paperback 2012).

“Sally and Molly: Life History, Black Girlhood, and the Future of the Field,” a/b:Auto/Biography Studies (forthcoming).