Wellington Castellucci Junior is a Professor of Human Science at the Universidade do Estado da Bahia and an Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia in Brazil. He received his doctorate in Social History from the University of São Paulo in 2005. He recently completed a fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library of Early American History focused on ties between the American whaling industry and the Atlantic Slave trade. His research areas include the histories of slavery, culture, memory, regional economies and culture, and Africanity. He is currently a 2025 Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellow at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut.