Background
Pamela Kyle Crossley was born on November 18, 1955 in Lima, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Charles August and Marilyn (maiden name: Detrick, present surname: Kaufman) Crossley.
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Pamela Kyle Crossley was born on November 18, 1955 in Lima, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Kenneth Charles August and Marilyn (maiden name: Detrick, present surname: Kaufman) Crossley.
Crossley attended high school in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. In 1977 she graduated from Swarthmore College with a B.A. degree (with high honors). At Swarthmore she was a student of Lillian M. Li and Bruce Cumings, and as an undergraduate began graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania with Hilary Conroy. She later entered Yale University, where she was a student of Yu Ying-shih and Parker Po-fei Huang, and wrote a dissertation under the direction of Jonathan D. Spence. She graduated from Yale University with a M.A. in 1979, with M.Phil. in 1981, with Ph.D. in 1983.
Crossley worked as an assistant professor from 1985 till 1990,as an associate professor from 1990-1993, as a professor of history since 1993 at Dartmouth College, Hanover. Crossley was a co-author of The Earth and its Peoples, which was a revolutionary text in 1997. Crossley is currently a software author, and has created applications for use by teachers, professors, community organizers to manage web pages.
Crossley is author of The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800: An Interpretive History (2010), as well as influential studies of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) and leading textbooks in global history. She is known for an interpretation of the source of twentieth-century identities. Crossley is a software author, and has created applications for use by teachers, professors, community organizers to manage web pages. Her work has been awarded the Joseph R. Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies (for a book in any discipline addressing China before 1800), the Dartmouth Award for Outstanding Scholarly or Creative Achievement (now the Karen Wetterhahn Award) and a Guggenheim fellowship among other honors.
Quotations: “1 am most influenced by historians who have tried to ex-plain complexities in plain language. The reverse is more fashionable now, and unfortunately aggravates my own weakness for trying to crowd simultaneities of meaning into a single spot on a page. So, I am an unwilling member of the atonal school of historical writing, at times. This is deplorable. As time goes by, we all learn more and more, but have less and less space and time in which to say it. Time is not on the side of coherent thinking and writing about the Past".
She has been a member of American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies.
