Carol Gluck
George Sansom Professor of History Columbia University
History
Personnel Committee (Spring 2009)
Biography Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, specializes in modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present, with writings on intellectual history, international relations, postwar Japanese history, historiography and public memory in Japan and the west. She received her B.A. from Wellesley (1962) and her Ph.D. from Columbia (1977). Her books include: Japan’s Modern Myths (1985); Showa: the Japan of Hirohito (1992); Asia in Western and World History (1997); Thinking with the Past: the Japanese and Modern History (2008); and Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (forthcoming).
