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Ada Palmer

Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 222 Mailbox 47

Phone: (773) 834-8178

adapalmer@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early modern Europe; the Renaissance, with a focus on Italy; the Reformation; longue-durée intellectual and cultural history; postclassical reception of classical philosophy; Renaissance humanism; history of the book, printing, and reading; censorship and information control especially during information revolutions; history of science, religion, atheism, deism, heresy, and heterodoxy; intellectual continuities from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; reception of Epicureanism, atomism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Platonism, and Neoplatonism; secondary specializations in genre fiction, science fiction & fantasy, and anime & manga.

Harvard University, PhD '09 BIOGRAPHY My research on intellectual history, or the history of ideas, is my way of exploring how history and thoug...

Richard Payne

Associate Professor of History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, ISAC, and the College

Office: William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, East Tower, room 481 Mailbox 82

Phone: (773) 834-9897

repayne@uchicago.edu

Interests:

The Middle East in Late Antiquity; Premodern Global History; Comparative Empires

Princeton University, PhD '09BIOGRAPHYA historian of the Iranian world in late antiquity, ca. 200–800 CE, Payne's research focuses primarily on the dy...

Steven Pincus

Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History and the College

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 505 Mailbox 28

Phone: (773) 702-9653

spincus@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Atlantic history; history of Britain; British Empire; history of Ireland; global history; early American history; history of the Netherlands; worldwide colonial rivalries of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; history of political economy; British Empire in South Asia; comparative revolutions; state formation; Industrial Revolution

Harvard University, PhD' 90 BIOGRAPHY I am a historian of Britain and its Empire, of comparative revolutions, comparative empires, and of northe...

Kenneth Pomeranz

University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College

Office Hours:

Spring Quarter 2025

Monday, 1:30-3:00pm and Wednesday, 10:30am-12:00pm, and by appointment

Office: Social Science Research Building, room 218 Mailbox 111

Phone: (773) 834-4247

kpomeranz1@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Reciprocal influences of state, society, and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China; the origins of a world economy as the outcome of mutual influences among various regions; environmental history in China; comparative studies of labor, family organization, and economic change in Europe and East Asia; expansion of China to its present frontiers

Yale University, PhD' 88BIOGRAPHYKenneth Pomeranz is a University Professor of History and in the College; he previously taught at the University of C...