Adam M. McKeown (1965–2017) was a historian of transnational migration.
Born in San Francisco, McKeown earned his PhD in history at the University of Chicago in 1997.
[1] His dissertation, later published as Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change,[2] studied Chinese migrants in Chicago, Peru, and Hawaii, and highlighted the transnational networks developed by migrant flow.
[3] In his view, the relevant points of reference were not “China” or “the United States", for instance, but particular villages and district, “nodes” of transit in Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Singapore, and the sophisticated "credit system”.
[1] In 2013, McKeown gave up his tenured position due to his frustration with academic politics.