Carol Gluck

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Carol Gluck (born November 12, 1941 in Chicago ) is an American historian and Japanologist . She is Professor of History and East Asian Languages ​​and Culture at Columbia University .

Gluck graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and received her PhD from Columbia University in 1977, where she later became a professor. She is at the Weatherland East Asian Institute , where she heads the East Asia program.

She was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo , the University of Venice , Harvard University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris .

She deals with 19th and 20th century Japanese history, global history of the 20th century, US relations with East Asia, and historiography and public awareness, particularly about World War II in Japan.

She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1991) and, since 2003, of the American Philosophical Society . In 2006 she received the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun (with gold rays and necklace). In 2014 she became a professor at the Cleveringa chair at the University of Leiden .

Fonts

  • Japan's modern myths: ideology in the late Meiji period, Princeton University Press 1985
  • Editor with Anna Tsing: Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon , Duke University Press, 2009
  • Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History, University of California Press 2013
  • Rekishi de kangaeru (Thinking with History), Tokyo: Iwanami 2007
  • Editor with Ainslie T. Embree : Asia in western and world history: a guide for teaching, Armonk (New York): Sharpe 1997
  • Editor with Stephen R. Graubard: Showa: the Japan of Hirohito, Norton 1992
  • Associate Editor: Sources of Japanese tradition, multiple volumes, Columbia University Press, as of 2006
  • The End of Elsewhere: Writing Modernity Now, American Historical Review, June 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historian Carol Gluck is Leiden's new Cleveringa professor. Universiteit Leiden, accessed on November 1, 2014 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Gluck, Carol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and Japanologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago