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Meet the 2025-26 First-Year Graduate Cohort
The Department of History is excited to welcome its 2025–26 first-year graduate students to Brown! From kinship and memory to finance and capitalism, this year’s cohort brings a vibrant array of research interests to College Hill.
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Inspired by his scholarship and teaching at Brown, Seth Rockman uncovered an unknown facet of pre-Civil War history that he detailed in an acclaimed book.
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Seth Rockman Wins 2025 Philip Taft Labor History Prize
Seth Rockman's latest book, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been named winner of the 2025 Philip Taft Labor History Prize.
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Keisha N. Blain Elected to Prestigious Society of American Historians
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Seth Rockman Named Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Seth Rockman's latest book, Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery (University of Chicago Press, 2024) has been named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in History.
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