Kenneth Pomeranz
American historian, sinologist, and university teacher · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1958 · age 68
Kenneth Pomeranz, FBA is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980, where he was a Telluride Scholar, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, where he was a student of Jonathan Spence.
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He then taught at the University of California, Irvine, for more than 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006. In 2013-2014 he was the president of the American Historical Association. Pomeranz has been described as a major figure in the California School of economic history.
