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] Caitlin Rosenthal studied at Harvard University before working for McKinsey & Company for three years.
She returned to Harvard to pursue a PhD in 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.