Carol Gluck is an American

United States

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 academic and Japanologist. She is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University

Columbia University

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Career

Gluck received her B.A. from Wellesley in 1962. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1977.

She has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

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, the University of Venice

University of Venice

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, Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

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 in Paris. Gluck directs the East Asian Studies program within the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Weatherhead East Asian Institute

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Books

• 2009 – Words in Motion co-edited with Anna Tsing. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press
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• 2009 – Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History. Berkeley: University of California Press
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• 2007 – Rekishi de kangaeru (Thinking with History). Tokyo: Iwanami
• 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. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• 1985 – Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period. Princeton: Princeton University Press
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• forthcoming – Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory. New York: Columbia University Press
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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).

Honors

• 2006 – Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
  Order of the Rising Sun
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• 2002 – Japan-United States Fulbright Program 50th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Award

External links

• Weatherhead East Asian Institute