Rate Professor Kenneth Pomeranz

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in History, Yale University, 1988; B.A., Cornell University.

Research Interests: Modern Chinese history, global economic history, and environmental history.

Appointments: University Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Chicago (2012–present); Professor, University of California, Irvine (1988–2012).

Publications:

• The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000)

Awards: John K. Fairbank Prize (2001).