Profile

Carol Gluck

• George Sansom Professor of History
  Committee on Global Thought
  Columbia University

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 led the Undergraduate Initiative of the Committee on Global Thought in 2006-07. 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 Ecole des Hautes Etudes 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 include Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory, Columbia University Press, forthcoming; Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History, University of California Press, 2009 (Japanese edition, Rekishi de kangaeru, Iwanami shoten, 2007; Words in Motion (with Anna Tsing)., Duke University Press, 2009; Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 2., with W.T.de Bary and Arthur Tiedemann, Columbia University Press, 2005l Toward Autonomy in US-Japan Relations [in Japanese], with Wada Haruki and Kang Sangjung, Fujiwara shoten, 2003; Asia in Western and World History, with Ainslie Embree, M.E.Sharpe, 1997;Showa: the Japan of Hirohito, W.W. Norton, 1992; Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period, Princeton University Press, 1985.