Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, specializes in modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present, with writings on intellectual history, international relations, post-war Japanese history, historiography and public memory in Japan and the west. She received her B.A. from Wellesley (1962) and her Ph.D. from Columbia (1977). Her books include:
Japan’s Modern Myths (1985);
Showa: the Japan of Hirohito (1992);
Asia in Western and World History (1997);
Thinking with the Past: the Japanese and Modern History (2008); and
Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (forthcoming).
