Kenneth Pomeranz

Kenneth Pomeranz is a distinguished American historian and a leading authority on Chinese and global history. He is a University Professor at the University of Chicago, where he has shaped the field of world history through decades of groundbreaking scholarship. His landmark work, "The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy", fundamentally reshaped debates on why the West industrialized before the East. He is also co-author of "The World That Trade Created". A past president of the American Historical Association, Pomeranz continues to inspire scholars with his sweeping, comparative approach to economic and environmental history.