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Richard Michael Romm (born January 11, 1978) is an American historian and communications advisor specializing in early American history. He is the author of America's First Whaling Industry and the Whaler Yeomen of Cape May: 1630–1830 (2010), which presents the thesis that American whaling originated in Delaware Bay rather than New England. Romm has held communications roles with the World Bank Group and Public Investment Fund entities. He is also co-authoring a book on Quaker heritage in West Sussex and its transatlantic connections to Pennsylvania.
Early life and education
[edit]Romm was born in Philadelphia. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Political Science from Rutgers University–New Brunswick and a Master of Arts in American History from Rutgers University–Camden. He was initiated into the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society in 2008.[1]
Historical scholarship and advocacy
[edit]Romm is currently co-authoring a forthcoming book with author Maggie Weir-Wilson titled A History of Quakers in the Horsham Area, which explores the history of Quakers in West Sussex and their legacy in the founding of Pennsylvania.
In June 2025, Romm published a letter in The Friend, a weekly Quaker publication in the United Kingdom, titled “Sharing Moral Outrage.” In the letter, he argued that Friends should seek to address global conflicts and humanitarian crises with a consistent moral voice, rather than concentrating disproportionately on the Israel–Gaza conflict.[2]
Since 2016, he has been researching and writing Yankee Slavery: Unearthing Northern Slave Plantations and the Crisis of America's Historical Amnesia.
In 2011, Romm published America's First Whaling Industry and the Whaler Yeomen of Cape May: 1630–1830, in which he argued that American whaling began with the 1631 Dutch whaling colony of Zwaanendael in the Delaware Bay, later centered in Cape May.[3]
Reception
[edit]A review on Academia.edu described Romm's work as challenging commonly held assumptions that American whaling originated in New England.[4] Multiple articles have cited the book's insights into Cape May's economic development and the rise of whaling family dynasties.[5]
In 2011, Romm was profiled by Dr. George Ross Fisher in Philadelphia Reflections, with over 2,000 articles about Philadelphia from past to present. Fisher described Romm as a "rising historical scholar with a special interest in early Philadelphia," following a presentation at the Right Angle Club on the history of the State in Schuylkill, the oldest social club in the English-speaking world.[6]
Career
[edit]Romm is Senior Communications Advisor at Jada Fund of Funds, a Public Investment Fund company. He has previously held communications roles at the Future Investment Initiative Institute, Red Sea Global, the Royal Commission for Al-Ula, Siemens Saudi Arabia and Petro Rabigh. In 2021, he was named as the North America and Europe media contact for the Future Investment Initiative Institute’s 5th-anniversary event in Riyadh.
From 2001 to 2004, Romm worked at the World Bank and its private-sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), where he contributed to publications including The World Bank in Action: Stories of Development, IFC Newsflash, annual reports, and press releases.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- America's First Whaling Industry and the Whaler Yeomen of Cape May: 1630–1830. ISBN 9783844314229
- The World Bank in Action: Stories of Development. World Bank, 2002.
References
[edit]- ^ "Phi Alpha Theta Initiates". The Historian. 70 (2): 411–428. 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00215.x. JSTOR 24454491.
- ^ "Letters – 20 June 2025". The Friend. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
- ^ Romm, Richard M. America's first whaling industry and the whaler yeomen of Cape May 1630-1830. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T39023V3
- ^ Rouleau, Brian (2007). "Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (review)". Journal of the Early Republic. 27 (4): 756–760. doi:10.1353/JER.2007.0071. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- ^ https://www.galaxus.ch/en/s18/product/americas-first-whaling-industry-and-the-whaler-yeomen-of-cape-may-richard-m-romm-2011-reference-book-55397617 Retrieved 10 July 2025
- ^ Fisher, George R. (29 November 2011). "State in Schuylkill Fishing Club". Philadelphia Reflections. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- ^ https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/250281468773093792/pdf/multi0page.pdf The World Bank in Action: Stories of Development (2002) World Bank. Retrieved 10 July 2025