Kenneth Hammond

Kenneth Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1994. His scholarship focuses on the history of China in the early modern period, particularly the sixteenth century, and he currently studies urban transformation and its visual representation in that era.

Education

• PhD, History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University (1994)

Research Interests

Hammond specializes in Chinese intellectual and political history of the sixteenth century. His ongoing project examines how early modern Chinese cities changed physically and how those changes were depicted visually, bridging urban history and visual culture studies.

Professional Service & Fellowships

• Past President, Society for Ming Studies
• Associate Editor for Ming and Qing periods, Journal of Chinese History
• Research Fellow, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (1999)
• Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (2002–2003)

Publications

He is the author of Pepper Mountain: The Life, Death and Posthumous Career of Yang Jisheng, 1516–1555 (2007) and has published numerous articles on Chinese intellectual and political history.