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.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rockman, Seth Living people American historians Columbia College (New York) alumni University of California, Davis alumni Occidental College faculty Brown University faculty Historians of slavery Year of birth missing (living people)