Ken Hammond
Professor of History, NMSU, PhD Harvard University, khammond@nmsu.edu
Ken Hammond is Professor of History and Academic Department Head in the Department of History at New Mexico State University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in History and East Asian Languages in 1994, and has taught at NMSU ever since. Professor Hammond specializes in the history of China in the Early Modern period, especially the 16th century. He has published numerous articles on Chinese intellectual and political history, and his book Pepper Mountain: The Life, Death and Posthumous Career of Yang Jisheng, 1516-1555 came out in 2007. In 1999 he was a research fellow at the Institute of History at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and in 2002-03 he was a visiting fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. He also works in global and comparative history, and is interested urban history and cartography.