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Seth E Rockman is the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History at Brown University, specializing in Revolutionary and Early Republic United States history with a focus on slavery, capitalism, and labor. He currently directs undergraduate studies in the Department of History. Rockman holds a PhD from the University of California, Davis (1999) and a BA from Columbia University (1993). His research bridges labor history, material culture, and the history of capitalism, emphasizing the entanglement of slavery in American economic development.
Key works include Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2009), which explores unskilled labor markets, and Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (2024), shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. He co-edited Slavery's Capitalism (2016), redefining understandings of American economic history.
Rockman has held prestigious fellowships from institutions including the American Academy in Berlin, the ACLS, and the Gilder Lehrman Center. His teaching spans undergraduate courses like 'A Textile History of Atlantic Slavery' and graduate seminars on global capitalism. He collaborates with scholars across disciplines, contributing to public history initiatives like Brown’s Slavery and Justice Report.
- Awards: Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Merle Curti Prize, OAH Distinguished Lecturer.
- Grants: Berlin Prize, Ryskamp Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
- Public Engagement: Advised the US House Financial Services Committee on capitalism and testified on historical legacies of slavery.
His scholarship emphasizes the dialectics of racism and repair, advocating for historical truth-telling as a pathway to societal transformation. Current projects explore objects like hoes and textiles as conduits of slavery’s material and ideological impact.
