Peter E. Hamilton is a historian of modern China and the World with particular interests in Chinese migration, the history of capitalism, and Sino-U.S. Relations. He is the author of Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2021), which was recently translated into Chinese as 香港製造: 跨太平洋網絡與全球化新史 (季風帶文化, 2024). Born and raised in Kansas City, Dr. Hamilton received his undergraduate education at Yale University and then taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow. He then earned his M.A. (2011) and Ph.D. (2015) in History at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Professor Madeline Y. Hsu. Before joining Bristol, Dr. Hamilton held fellowships and positions at Columbia University in New York, Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman College, Trinity College Dublin, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
Dr. Peter Hamilton
