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Carol Gluck
International Affairs Building, Room 912
George Sansom Professor of History
Phone: 212-854-2591
cg9@columbia.edu
Biography:
Carol Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. She specializes in modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present, international relations, and history-writing and public memory in Asia and the West.
Professor Gluck's publications include Japan's Modern Myths (Princeton 1987); Showa: the Japan of Hirohito (Norton 1992); Asia in Western and World History, co-edited with Ainslee Embree (Sharpe 1997); Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History (University of California, 2008; Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), as well as several books in Japanese, the most recent of which is Rekishi de kangaeru [Thinking with History] (Iwanami, 2007).
She received her BA from Wellesley in 1962 and her PhD from Columbia in 1977.