Caitlin Rosenthal

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Caitlin C. Rosenthal is an American historian. She is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book, Accounting for Slavery (2018), won the Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association in 2019, [1] and the first monograph prize from the Economic History Society in 2020. [2]

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Life

Caitlin Rosenthal studied at Harvard University before working for McKinsey & Company for three years. She returned to Harvard to pursue a PhD in history. There she was a finalist for the Nevins Prize in Economic History and winner of the Krooss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Business History. [3]

Rosenthal was a Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School before becoming an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. [3]

Accounting for Slavery was widely and favourably reviewed. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Jeffrey Sklansky called it a "stunning study". [9]

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References

  1. "Francis B. Simkins Award". Southern Historical Association. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  2. "First Monograph Prize in Economic and/or Social History". Economic History Society. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  3. 1 2 "Accounting for Slavery". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  4. Walsh, Lorena S. (October 2019). "Caithlin Rosenthal. Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management". The American Historical Review. 124 (4): 1404–1406.
  5. Hyman, Louis (2019). "Book Review: Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. By Caitlin Rosenthal". ILR Review. 73 (1). doi:10.1177/0019793919880856.
  6. Stapleton, Darwin (January 2020). "Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal (review)". Technology and Culture. 6 (1): 346–347. doi:10.1353/tech.2020.0026.
  7. Roberts, Justin (2020). "Accounting for slavery: masters and management, by Caitlin Rosenthal". Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies. 41 (3). doi:10.1080/0144039X.2020.1790769.
  8. Davidson, Ben (December 2020). "Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal (review)". Civil War History. 66 (4): 416–417.
  9. Sklansky, Jeffrey (Spring 2021). "Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. By Caitlin Rosenthal". Journal of Social History. 54 (3): 973–975. doi:10.1093/jsh/shz115.