Seth Rockman
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Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2010)
Seth Rockman | |
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 Rockman in 2012 | |
| Spouse | Tara Nummedal |
| Awards | Merle Curti Award (2010) Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2010) |
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| Education | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | American history |
| Sub-discipline | History of slavery |
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Seth Rockman is an American historian. He is an associate professor of history at Brown University.[1] He is the recipient of the Merle Curti Award and the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for his 2009 book Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore.[2]
Rockman was born in Indiana and raised in San Francisco.[2] He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.[3] He taught at Occidental College before joining the Brown University faculty in 2004.[1] His scholarship has focused on the history of slavery and capitalism in the United States.[4][5][6][7]
In 2010, Rockman was the co-winner of the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians.[8] He also received the 2010 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award from the Cornell University ILR School.[9]
In 2016, he co-edited Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development with Sven Beckert, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.[10]
