Carol Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University. Her areas of expertise include
modern Japanese history, international relations and history-writing and public
memory in Asia and the West. Her recent publications include Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History (University
of California, 2009), Past Obsessions:
World War Two in History and Memory (Columbia University
Press, forthcoming), and a number of books in Japanese, most recently Rekishi de kangaeru [Thinking with
History] (Iwanami, 2007). In
2006 she received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, from
the government of Japan and in 2002 was honored with the Japan-United States
Fulbright Program 50th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Award.
