Jonathan Porter

Professor • Asia, Modern China, East Asia
Associate Chair • Department of History

Contact

email: jporter@unm.edu

office: Mesa Vista 1077

office phone: (505) 277-5214

website:www.unm.edu/~jporter

Profile

Dr. Porter has been teaching at UNM since 1969. His main research interests include the social and institutional history of late imperial China, especially the social history of science, and the history of Macau. He is currently working on a study of intellectual patronage and the culture of scientific activity in 18th and 19th century China. Professor Porter teaches courses on traditional and modern China, Japan, Asian civilizations, European expansion in Asia, and World History. Dr. Porter also serves as the Asian Studies Program Chair.

Education

A.B. in Astronomy, Harvard University, 1960
M.A. in History, University of Colorado, 1963
Ph.D. in History, University of California at Berkeley, 1971

Research

Late imperial China, Chinese social and cultural history and the social history of Chinese science, European expansion in Asia, and the social and cultural history of Macau.

Selected Publications

Macau: The Imaginary City (1996)

“The Scientific Community in Early Modern China,” in Isis (1982)

Tseng Kuo-fan’s Private Bureaucracy (1972)

Awards

Western Conference, Association for Asian Studies, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, for contributions to Asian Studies, 2002

UNM Students’ Outstanding Teacher Award, 1984

ACLS, Grant for Research on Chinese Civilization, 1976-77

Courses

Western Civilization to 1648
Traditional Eastern Civilization
Modern Eastern Civilizations
European Expansion in Asia
World History
Traditional China
Early Modern China
History of Japan
Imperial China
Revolutionary China