Seth Rockman

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 taught at Occidental College before joining the Brown University faculty in 2004.

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.

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.

Personal life Rockman is married to fellow Brown historian Tara Nummedal.