Carol Gluck

Carol Gluck (born November 12, 1941) is an American academic and historian of Japan. She is the George Sansom Professor Emerita 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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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 (republished in 2021) – 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
• 1989 – Great Teacher Awards by Columbia Society of Graduates^[3]

Notes

1. Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Carol Gluck.
2. Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought (CGT): Carol Gluck Archived June 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
3. "Master Recipient List". Society of Columbia Graduates. Retrieved April 15, 2023.

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

• Weatherhead East Asian Institute