Author

Stephen J. Rockel

Observed names: Rockel, Stephen, Rockel, Stephen J., STEPHEN J. ROCKEL, Stephen J Rockel, Stephen Rockel, Stephen J. Rockel

Institution: University of Toronto

Observed institutions: University of Toronto, University of Toronto Scarborough

ORCID: 0009-0005-6412-4162

Observed ORCID: 0009-0005-6412-4162

OpenAlex ID: A5012045400

Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa

1996 · Stephen J. Rockel, Allen Isaacman, et al. · Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 78

‘a Nation of Porters’: the Nyamwezi and the Labour Market in Nineteenth-century Tanzania

2000 · STEPHEN J. ROCKEL · The Journal of African History · 73

Maji Maji: Lifting the Fog of War

2012 · Stephen J. Rockel · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 37

Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania: Mbwamaji and Mpwapwa

2006 · Stephen J. Rockel · Azania Archaeological Research in Africa · 34

Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth Century East Africa: The Case of Waungwana Caravan Porters

2009 · Stephen J. Rockel · African Studies · 18

Caravan porters of the Nyika : labour, culture, and society in nineteenth century Tanzania

1997 · Stephen J. Rockel · Library and Archives Canada (Government of Canada) · 18

Enterprising Partners: Caravan Women in Nineteenth Century Tanzania

2000 · Stephen J. Rockel · Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 17

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

2002 · Stephen J. Rockel, Mungo Park, et al. · Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 14

The Tutsi and the Nyamwezi: Cattle, Mobility, and the Transformation of Agro-Pastoralism in Nineteenth-Century Western Tanzania

2019 · Stephen J. Rockel · History in Africa · 10

Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania: The Central Caravan Routes

1995 · Stephen Rockel · Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East · 8

A Forgotten Drought and Famine in East Africa, 1883–1885

2022 · Stephen J. Rockel · Springer eBooks · 7

Relocating Labor: Sources from the Nineteenth Century

1995 · Stephen Rockel · History in Africa · 5

The ANC’s War Against Apartheid: Umkhonto We Sizwe and the Liberation of South Africa

2019 · Stephen J. Rockel · Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 4

The Home and the World: Slavery and Domestic Labor in a Nineteenth-Century East African Caravan Town

2018 · Stephen J. Rockel · De Gruyter eBooks · 2

Trade Unions in West Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

2014 · Stephen J. Rockel · African Studies Review · 2

Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization

2011 · Stephen J. Rockel · Social History · 2

New Labor History in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Enslavement and Forced Labor

2014 · Stephen J. Rockel · International Labor and Working-Class History · 1

Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan

2012 · Stephen J. Rockel · Berghahn Books · 1

Isike

2011 · Stephen J. Rockel · African American Studies Center · 1

In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania

2007 · Stephen J. Rockel · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 1

Fashioning inland communities: Trade and popular culture in Central East Africa by Yaari Felber-Seligman Madison: University Wisconsin Press, 2025. Pp.308. $89.95. hardback (ISBN: 9780299350406)

2026 · Stephen Rockel · The Journal of Modern African Studies

The 19th Century Slave Trade in Eastern Africa

2025 · Stephen J Rockel · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

Politics Of and Through the Thoroughfare - Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa Peer Schouten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 299. $33.95, paperback (ISBN: 9781108713818); ebook (ISBN: 9781108625050).

2025 · Stephen J. Rockel · The Journal of African History

Chapter 20 Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan

2022 · Stephen J. Rockel · Berghahn Books

Craig Phelan, ed. Trade Unions in West Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Trade Unions Past, Present and Future, Volume7. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. 282pp. Index. Notes on Contributors. $66.95. Paper.

2014 · Stephen J. Rockel · African Studies Review

Works count: 42

Citation count: 333

H-index: 9

I10-index: 9