Seth Rockman
@sethrockman.bsky.social
Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
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Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
February 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
Somehow I waited until now to read Lewis Mumford. [A weird gap in my scholarly training perhaps?] Regardless, looking at the terrifyingly prescient "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics" (1964) for the first time. Its central exhortation matters like never before: "life cannot be delegated"
Authoritarian and Democratic Technics on JSTOR
Lewis Mumford, Authoritarian and Democratic Technics, Technology and Culture, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter, 1964), pp. 1-8
www.jstor.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Somehow I waited until now to read Lewis Mumford. [A weird gap in my scholarly training perhaps?] Regardless, looking at the terrifyingly prescient "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics" (1964) for the first time. Its central exhortation matters like never before: "life cannot be delegated"
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All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money
January 31, 2026 at 7:04 PM
All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money
Have you always wanted to listen to a conversation between @svenbeckert.bsky.social and myself about his new book?
Well, now you can, thanks to @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social #RhodesCenter podcast!
Well, now you can, thanks to @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social #RhodesCenter podcast!
A global history of capitalism
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
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January 26, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Have you always wanted to listen to a conversation between @svenbeckert.bsky.social and myself about his new book?
Well, now you can, thanks to @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social #RhodesCenter podcast!
Well, now you can, thanks to @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social #RhodesCenter podcast!
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The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 PM
The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians:
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
January 24, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
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Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
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📣 New special issue in "Critical Historical Studies" on “Early Modern Monetary Relations”
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Current ScholarshipPlurality, Entanglements, and Empire in Early Modern Monetary Relations – Special Issue
Andrew David Edwards, Ellen M. Nye, Joshua Batts, and Shweta S. Banerjee
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January 19, 2026 at 2:12 PM
📣 New special issue in "Critical Historical Studies" on “Early Modern Monetary Relations”
justmoney.org/plurality-en...
justmoney.org/plurality-en...
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Thank you @kateesthersmith.bsky.social, @apeikeumolu.bsky.social, @sallytuckett.bsky.social, @aishadjelid.bsky.social, and @sethrockman.bsky.social for such an excellent roundtable this afternoon on Plantation Goods!
January 16, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Thank you @kateesthersmith.bsky.social, @apeikeumolu.bsky.social, @sallytuckett.bsky.social, @aishadjelid.bsky.social, and @sethrockman.bsky.social for such an excellent roundtable this afternoon on Plantation Goods!
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"The Gospel Is Anti-Fascist"
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
"The Gospel Is Anti-Fascist"
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Really looking forward to tomorrow’s roundtable on Plantation Goods with @sethrockman.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @johnmunro.bsky.social All welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...
Roundtable on new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery - University of Birmingham
On Friday 16 January 2026 (14.00-16.00), the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities and the Centre for Global American Studies, will be hosting historian Seth Rockman (Brown).
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Really looking forward to tomorrow’s roundtable on Plantation Goods with @sethrockman.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social @sallytuckett.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @johnmunro.bsky.social All welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...
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Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.
January 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Elected officials have to stop posting like bystanders who have no power.
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A good moment to note that two months from now, Susan's *Moving toward Freedom* will be coming out from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and it is going to be awesome! Preorder now..
Moving Toward Freedom by Susan Eva O'Donovan: 9780593657041 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A magisterial, groundbreaking new study of the lives of enslaved Americans on the cusp of the Civil War that places them—and their hard-won political knowledge—rightly at the center of the...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A good moment to note that two months from now, Susan's *Moving toward Freedom* will be coming out from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and it is going to be awesome! Preorder now..
Susan O'Donovan had a conversation about slavery's archive, experiential research, "slow history," and the institutional supports for knowledge production in our field. That conversation appears in the latest @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social and I hope you'll read it!
Unpaywalled here...
Unpaywalled here...
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Seth Rockman, professor of history at Brown University, is the author or editor of three books, as well as numerous essays, almost all of which explore the intersections of slavery and capitalism and ...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Susan O'Donovan had a conversation about slavery's archive, experiential research, "slow history," and the institutional supports for knowledge production in our field. That conversation appears in the latest @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social and I hope you'll read it!
Unpaywalled here...
Unpaywalled here...
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Are you a PhD student working on a dissertation that engages with the history of the city or metropolitan planning (anytime or place)? Apply to participate in the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium at the SACRPH Conference in Cincinnati on Oct 15! Please repost and share offline.
Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium
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January 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Are you a PhD student working on a dissertation that engages with the history of the city or metropolitan planning (anytime or place)? Apply to participate in the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium at the SACRPH Conference in Cincinnati on Oct 15! Please repost and share offline.
Thanks, Karin!
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Thanks, Karin!
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Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
I am grateful for this opportunity to visit Birmingham next week and very much looking forward to the conversation!
@sethrockman.bsky.social @apeikeumolu.bsky.social @aishadjelid.bsky.social and @sallytuckett.bsky.social are coming to Birmingham next Friday to discuss Plantation Goods: A Material History of Slavery - everyone welcome! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/round...
Roundtable on new book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery - University of Birmingham
On Friday 16 January 2026 (14.00-16.00), the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities and the Centre for Global American Studies, will be hosting historian Seth Rockman (Brown).
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I am grateful for this opportunity to visit Birmingham next week and very much looking forward to the conversation!
I will never stop being furious about the desecration of our Capitol and the lack of accountability for the criminals who plotted this coup. I also think it is outrageous that we still don't know the names of all the Congresspeople who made this an "inside job." This treachery must yet be revealed.
January 6, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I will never stop being furious about the desecration of our Capitol and the lack of accountability for the criminals who plotted this coup. I also think it is outrageous that we still don't know the names of all the Congresspeople who made this an "inside job." This treachery must yet be revealed.
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Free public lecture by @sethrockman.bsky.social on slavery, capitalism, and his award winning new book.
6 PM, Friday, 16 January.
BRIG Cafe @inthewarehouse.bsky.social
Introduced by Gabrielle Hemmings (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
See you there!
6 PM, Friday, 16 January.
BRIG Cafe @inthewarehouse.bsky.social
Introduced by Gabrielle Hemmings (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
See you there!
Public Lecture exploring how the production and consumption of goods shaped American slavery - University of Birmingham
A public lecture by historian Seth Rockman, whose research explores the relationships between slavery and capitalism in the making of modern America.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Free public lecture by @sethrockman.bsky.social on slavery, capitalism, and his award winning new book.
6 PM, Friday, 16 January.
BRIG Cafe @inthewarehouse.bsky.social
Introduced by Gabrielle Hemmings (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
See you there!
6 PM, Friday, 16 January.
BRIG Cafe @inthewarehouse.bsky.social
Introduced by Gabrielle Hemmings (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
See you there!
Evidence of a profoundly dysfunctional society. Not unique to Rhode Island by any means, but no less infuriating.
@universityofri.bsky.social men’s basketball coach is highest-paid R.I. state employee — again. The top 10 highest paid state workers in 2025 included five URI employees, three correctional officers, and two state doctors
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URI men’s basketball coach is highest-paid R.I. state employee — again - The Boston Globe
The top 10 highest paid state workers in 2025 included five URI employees, three correctional officers, and two state doctors.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Evidence of a profoundly dysfunctional society. Not unique to Rhode Island by any means, but no less infuriating.
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As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History hopes to provide an intellectual scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas. Issue 22:4 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/ZW0Ee2A
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December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History hopes to provide an intellectual scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas. Issue 22:4 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/ZW0Ee2A
@laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
@laborlawchajournal.bsky.social