Professor
678-839-6032
cvasconc@westga.edu
Technology Learning Center - Room 3208
Office Hours
Wed: 9A-6P online, and by appointment
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 the changing nature of girlhood in the colonial Caribbean, Dr. Vasconcellos is also working on a new project that examines the slave ship Wanderer's last voyage to Georgia in 1848.
- B.A., History, Western Carolina University, 1995
- M.A., American History, East Tennessee State University, 1998
- Ph.D., Atlantic Studies, Florida International University, 2004
- ENGL-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies)
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II)
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865))
- HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy)
- HIST-3326 (Colonial Latin America)
- HIST-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies)
- HIST-4310 (Comparative Slavery & Emancipa)
- HIST-4385 (Latin American Women)
- HIST-4481 (Comparative Slavery)
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar)
- HIST-4485 (History of American Foodways)
- HIST-4580 (American Foodways)
- HIST-5385 (Latin American Women)
- HIST-6481 (Women in World History)
- HIST-6684 (Historiography)
- HIST-6686 (Atlantic World)
- HIST-6687 (History of American Foodways)
- HIST-6699 (Thesis)
- HONR-4385 (Golden Age of Piracy-Honors)
Spring 2021 Sections
- ENGL-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies) Section: E01
- HIST-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies) Section: E01
- HIST-4580 (American Foodways) Section: E02
Fall 2020 Sections
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HONR-4385 (Golden Age of Piracy-Honors) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4580 (American Foodways) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2020 Sections
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E05 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4580 (American Foodways) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Spring 2020 Sections
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-6686 (Golden Age of Piracy) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2019 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E08 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 81G
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E06 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 2DW Download Syllabus [PDF]
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 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03G
- HIST-2111 (US Hist I(to 1865)-Honors) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4481 (Atlantic World Slavery) Section: E03 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-6686 (Atlantic World) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2018 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 04G
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865) Honors) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4485 (History of American Foodways) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-6687 (History of American Foodways) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2018 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03G
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Spring 2018 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03G
- HIST-2111 (US Hist I(to 1865)-Honors) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
- ENGL-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies) Section: 1DW Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-3350 (Intro to Africana Studies) Section: 1DW Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4481 (American Slavery) Section: E02
Fall 2017 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01G Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4310 (Comparative Slavery & Emancipa) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2017 Sections
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Spring 2017 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 04G
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01D Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2016 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01D Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-6684 (Historiography) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
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 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-3326 (Colonial Latin America) Section: 02W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2015 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
- HIST-2111 (U S History I (to 1865)) Section: E02 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4385 (Latin American Women) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-5385 (Latin American Women) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-6481 (Women in World History) Section: E01
- HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 01
- HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 02
- HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 03
Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838. Early American Places Series (Georgia, 2015).
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).
“’to so dark a destiny My lovely babe I’ve borne:’ Enslaved Girls in Jamaica, 1750-1838,” in Diana Anselmo-Sequeira and Miriam Foreman-Brunell (eds.), Girls’ Economies: Work & Play Cultures (forthcoming).
“American Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade,” in Thomas Buchanan (ed.), Interpreting American Enslavement. Interpreting American History Series (Kent State University Press, forthcoming).
“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.