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Seth Rockman is an American historian. He is an associate professor of history at Brown University. 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.




Biography


Rockman was born in Indiana and raised in San Francisco. He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. He taught at Occidental College before joining the Brown University faculty in 2004. His scholarship has focused on the history of slavery and capitalism in the United States.
In 2010, Rockman was the co-winner of the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians. He also received the 2010 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award from the Cornell University ILR School.




Personal life


Rockman is married to fellow Brown historian Tara Nummedal.




Bibliography


Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. University of Chicago Press, 2024.




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