Rate My Professor Kenneth Pomeranz

Pomeranz has authored seminal works such as The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000), which received the John K. Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association and the World History Association book prize; The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937 (University of California Press, 1993), also awarded the Fairbank Prize; and The World that Trade Created, co-authored with Steven Topik (M.E. Sharpe, 1999; fourth edition, 2017). He has co-edited volumes including The Cambridge World History, Volume VII (Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Environment and World History, 1500–2000 (University of California Press, 2009), and Encyclopedia of the History of World Trade (Thomson Gale, 2005). His honors include the Dan David Prize (2019), fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, Institute for Advanced Study, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Pomeranz is a founding editor of the Journal of Global History and has served as president of the American Historical Association.