Carol Gluck

Carol Gluck (born November 12, 1941^[1]) is an American academic and Japanologist. She is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University and served as the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1996.

Career[]

Gluck was born in Chicago, Illinois, and received her B.A. from Wellesley in 1962. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1977.^[2]

She has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, the University of Venice, Harvard University, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.^[3] Gluck directs the East Asian Studies program within the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She was president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1996.

Select works[]

Books[]

• 2019 – Senso no Kioku (War Memory) Tokyo: Kodansha.
• 2007 – Rekishi de kangaeru (Thinking with History). Tokyo: Iwanami
• 1985 – Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Edited books[]

• 2009 – Words in Motion co-edited with Anna Tsing. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
• 1997 – Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching co-edited with Ainslie Embree. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
• 1992 – Showa: the Japan of Hirohito co-edited with Stephen Graubard. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Articles[]

• "Meiji and Modernity: From History to Theory,” in Intrecci Culturali ed. Rosa Caroli (Venice, 2009)
• "Ten Top Things to Know About Japan in the Early Twentieth Century," Education About Asia (Winter 2008).

Affiliations[]

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• American Philosophical Society

Honors[]

• 2006 – Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
• 2002 – Japan-United States Fulbright Program 50th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Award

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References[]

External links[]

• Weatherhead East Asian Institute