Weatherhead faculty member Dr. Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History Emerita at Columbia University, has been named the 2024 winner of the NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies.
Awarded annually since 2019 by Japan’s National Institute for the Humanities (a consortium of six research institutes) with support from the Kuraray Foundation, the NIHU International Prize recognizes a scholar based outside of Japan who has made, in the sponsor’s words, “a significant contribution to the international development of Japanese studies.”
Professor Gluck will receive the NIHU International Prize and deliver a commemorative lecture in a public ceremony at the Japan Academy (Nihon gakushi-In) in Tokyo on March 19, 2025.
Reached for comment, Professor Gluck said, “It’s a great honor to receive this award and a real pleasure to look forward to seeing so many friends and colleagues at the ceremony in Tokyo. I am grateful for our long years together.”
A specialist in the history of modern Japan from the mid-19th century to the present, Professor Gluck is the author of more than 10 books and scores of scholarly articles in English and Japanese. She joined the faculty of Columbia’s East Asian Institute (as it was then known) in 1975 and was later named George Sansom Professor of History in the Department of History and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
