In Preparation. Colclasure, Cayla B. “‘Unsound and Disabled Convicts’: Debility, Race, and Social Control in North Carolina’s 19th Century Prison System.”
In Preparation. Colclasure, Cayla B. “Archaeological Investigations at The Cowee Tunnel Prison Labor Camp, a Convict-Leasing Era Site in Jackson County, NC.”
In Preparation. Colclasure, Cayla B. “Historical Reckoning and Community Engagement with Legacies of Incarcerated Labor on the Western North Carolina Railroad.”
In Press. Colclasure, Cayla B. and Anna S. Agbe-Davies. “(Un)Learning to Teach ANTH 101: Introductory Archaeology as an Invitation to Disrupt.” In Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Active Learning In and Beyond the University Classroom, eds. Hannah Cobb and Karina Croucher.
2025. Colclasure, Cayla B. “A Small Number in Idleness are Ungovernable: Imprisoned Labor, Control, and Resistance on the Western North Carolina Railroad, 1875-1890.” North Carolina Historical Review. https://research.ebsco.com/c/xo5gt6/search/details/vkb4onwrgn?db=aph
2025. Colclasure, Cayla B., C. Fred Andrus, and Elliot H. Blair. “Of Missions and Marshes: Stable Isotope Analysis of Mission-era Guale Oyster Harvesting on St. Catherines Island, Georgia.” Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 20(1): 131-151.https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2023.2192015
2024. Westmont, V. Camille and Cayla B. Colclasure. “An Archaeology of Convict Leasing in the American South”. Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 13(2):134-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2023.2205688
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