Adam Rothman is professor of history at Georgetown University, chair of the History Department, and the director of Georgetown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies.

He is the author of Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South and Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery, which won the American Civil War Museum’s book award. Rothman is also the co-editor of Facing Georgetown’s History and the curator of the Georgetown Slavery Archive website, a digital repository of archival materials relating to the history of Georgetown, the Society of Jesus, and slavery. He was a member of Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation.

Rothman teaches courses on 19th century American history, Atlantic history, the history of slavery, and archival theory and practice. He received Georgetown’s 2024 President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers and the James S. Ruby Faculty Appreciation Award from the Georgetown University Alumni Association in 2023.