Stephen J. Rockel

Stephen J. Rockel is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. Specializing in East Africa, he is interested in labor, slavery, urbanization, and environmental history, as well as empires and conflict. He authored Carriers of ulture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa and coedited (with Rick Halpern) Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire. His current projects include histories of slavery in Tanzania and caravan workers across Africa.