Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Phd, History and East Asian Languages, 1981
- Website: http://adgordon.net/
Research Topics
Toward a Contemporary History of Japan’s “Lost Decades”
Education and Academic Employment
| 2002- | Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University |
| 1995-2002 | Professor of History, Harvard University |
| 1991-1995 | Professor of History, Duke University |
| 1987-1991 | Associate Professor of History, Duke University |
| 1985-1987 | Assistant Professor of History, Duke University |
| 1981-1985 | Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University |
Research Fields of Interest
- Education
- Employment
- Gender
- Family
- Economy
- Japanese modern history
- History of labor and industrial relations
- History of consumers and consumption
Selected Publications
Academic Publiations
- 2013 Mishin to Nihon no kindai¸ Misuzu Shobō. Translation of Fabricating Consumers (2011).
- 2013 A Modern History of Japan, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press. (translations published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
- 2012 Nihon roshi Kankei Shi, Iwanami shoten. A translation of The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan (1985) with two additional chapters covering the period from the 1960s to the present.
- 2011 Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan (University of California Press).
- 1998 The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Press).
- 1993 Postwar Japan as History (editor), University of California Press. Published in Japanese translation by Misuzu shobo, 2002.
Honors
| 2014- | Member, American Academy of Arts and Science |
Professional Affiliations
- Association for Asian Studies
- American Historical Association
