Jeffrey Rogers Hummel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at San Jose State University.  He teaches both economics and history and his research interests include macroeconomics, monetary theory and history, the economics of war and defense, the economics of slavery, U.S. economic history, and the U.S. civil war.  Prior to joining San Jose State University, Prof. Hummel lectured as an adjunct at Golden Gate University and Santa Clara University.  He also served in the U.S. Army as a tank platoon leader during the early seventies, was Publications Director for the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA, in the late eighties, and was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, for the 2001-2002 academic year. 

Prof. Hummel is the author of Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War (Chicago: Open Court, 1996) and has published articles in the Journal of Economic History, Texas Law Review, and International Philosophical Quarterly, among others.