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[]
Honors[]
- 2006 – Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
- 2002 – Japan-United States Fulbright Program 50th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Award
Notes[]
- ^ "Biographical entry for Carol Gluck" jrank.org Archived June 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine April 17, 2010
- ^ Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Carol Gluck.
- ^ Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought (CGT): Carol Gluck Archived June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
References[]
- Gibney, Frank. "Imperial Failings" (a review of The Age of Hirohito: in Search of Modern Japan by Daikichi Irokawa." New York Times. September 24, 1995
- Pogrebin, Robin. "Japan Society Celebrates Its Centennial While Mending Its Fences," New York Times. March 22, 2007.
- Rich, Motoko, Lukas Schwarzacher and Fumie Tomita. "Land Of the Rising Cliché," New York Times. January 4, 2004.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1941 births
- Living people
- People from Illinois
- Wellesley College alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- Columbia University faculty
- American Japanologists
- Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
- Presidents of the Association for Asian Studies