Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History On Leave Spring 2024
Andrew Gordon’s teaching and research focus primarily on modern Japan but he has also taught Japan’s premodern history and courses on comparative history...
Department Chair Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History
Professor David L. Howell grew up in Hilo, Hawai'i. After graduating from the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, he studied at Hokkaido University in Sapporo...
Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Fall 2024) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute
Sung Eun Kim is 2024–25 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences at the Harvard Korea Institute. He is a historian of modern Korea...
Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2023-24
Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After...