Carol Gluck (born November 12, 1941) is an American

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and

Japanologist Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ...

. She is the George Sansom Professor Emerita of History at

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and served as the president of the

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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.Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Carol Gluck
She has been a visiting professor at the

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, the

University of Venice Ca' Foscari University of Venice ( it, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, simply Università Ca' Foscari) is a public university in Venice, Italy. Since its foundation in 1868, it has been housed in the Venetian Gothic palace of Ca' Foscari, from w ...

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, and the

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in Paris.Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought (CGT)
Carol Gluck
. Gluck directs the East Asian Studies program within the

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. She was president of the

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:

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Edited books

* 2009 – ''Words in Motion'' co-edited with Anna Tsing. Durham, North Carolina:

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 Du ...

. * 1997 – ''Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching'' co-edited with

Ainslie Embree Ainslie Thomas Embree (; January 1, 1921 – June 6, 2017) was a Canadian Indologist and historian. He was considered a leading scholar of modern Indian history and played a seminal role in the introduction of South Asian studies into US college a ...

. 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 ''Education About Asia'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Association for Asian Studies especially for middle-school and university classroom teachers. The journal covers the entire field of Asian studies, including cl ...

'' (Winter 2008).

Affiliations

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

Honors

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

Notes

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

''New York Times.'' March 22, 2007. * Rich, Motoko, Lukas Schwarzacher and Fumie Tomita

''New York Times.'' January 4, 2004.

External links

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