Carol Gluck

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,  World War II, and history-writing and public memory in Asia and the West.



Professor Gluck's books include Japan's Modern Myths (Princeton 1987); Showa: the Japan of Hirohito (Norton 1992); Asia in Western and World History (Sharpe 1997);  Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon (Duke, 2009) ;Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History (University of California, 2018); and 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 a revised paperback edition of Rekishi de kangaeru [Thinking with History] (Iwanami, 2017).



She received her BA from Wellesley in 1962 and her PhD from Columbia in 1977.  She is a founding member and now Chair of Columbia's Committee on Global Thought.

Education

• PhD, Columbia University
• BA, Wellesley University