Faculty : Carol Gluck
Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History in the Departments of History, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia university. She writes about modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present, contemporary international relations, World War II, and history and memory in Asia and the West. She teaches undergraduates, graduates, and professional school students at Columbia and is the Director of the Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) program.
Her BA is from Wellesley, MA and Ph.D from Columbia, and she has taught at the Universities of Tokyo and Venice, Harvard, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Honors include the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government, 2006; Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Award, 2003; election to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; presidency of the Association for Asian Studies; numerous teaching awards, fellowships, and book prizes.
Representative Publications:
Forthcoming. Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press.
2007. Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History. Berkeley: University of California Press. Japanese edition. Tokyo: Iwanami shoten.
2005 (with W.T. de Bary and Arthur Tiedemann). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2. rev. ed. New York: Columbia University Press.
2003 (with Wada Haruki and Kang Sangjung). Toward Autonomy in US-Japan Relations [in Japanese]. Tokyo: Fujiwara shoten.
1997 (edited with Ainslie Embree). Asia in Western and World History. Armonk, NY: Sharpe.
1992. Showa: the Japan of Hirohito. New York: W.W. Norton.
1985. Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
