Dan Knorr

Biography

My research and teaching focus on the early modern and modern periods of Chinese history, particularly the relationship between local communities and the state, urban history, and translocal mobility. World historical perspectives are an important component of both my teaching and my research, shaping how I look at historical problems through a comparative framework and how I examine global currents and local and narratives in light of each other.

I received my PhD from the University of Chicago and worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences there in 2020. I taught in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University from 2021 to 2024 and was a fellow at Robinson College. I hold master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of California, Irvine and completed my undergraduate study at Johns Hopkins University. I also attended the Inter-University Program for Chinese language study in 2010–11. I received a Fulbright fellowship to support research in China in 2016–17.