Carol Gluck

Carol Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History Emerita in the Department of History and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.  She specializes in the history of modern Japan from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with writings in social and cultural history, international relations, World War II, history-writing and public memory in Japan and the West.  She has a B.A. from Wellesley, a Ph.D. from Columbia, and has taught at the Universities of Tokyo, Venice, Oslo, and Leiden, Harvard, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

Her publications include Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period; Shōwa: The Japan of Hirohito, Asia in Western and World History, Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon; in Japanese, Senso no kioku [War Memory], and Rekishi de kangaeru [Thinking with History].  Forthcoming are Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History and Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory.

A founding member and former Chair of Columbia's Committee on Global Thought, she has often taught in Columbia’s MA in History and Literature in Paris and has been involved with Reid Hall and the Global Center Paris since its founding. She is also chair of the Faculty Advisory Board for the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall.

She is co-chair of the Trustees Emeriti of the Asia Society, member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society,  elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected member of the American Philosophical Society, and recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun from the government of Japan.