Rockman, Seth

Seth Rockman (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) is an assistant professor of history at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He recently served as the advanced research fellow of the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. His scholarship focuses on capitalism, slavery, and labor in the early Republic United States, and his book-length study of wage workers in Baltimore will appear in 2004. He has published articles on women's labor and capital punishment in the early, 19th century, and writes for the History News Service.