Colleen Vasconcellos, Ph.D.

Professor of History and History Program Coordinator
School of Humanities College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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Colleen Vasconcellos, Ph.D.
Biography

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 the manumission of enslaved children in Jamaica, Dr. Vasconcellos is also working on a project that examines the Yulee Family in Antebellum Florida.

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

“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).