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Andrew Gordon is the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University, specializing in modern Japan with a focus on consumer culture, labor history, and comparative studies. He holds a joint appointment in the History Department and has served as Chair of Harvard's History Department (2004-07) and Director of the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies (1998-04, 2011-12). His research explores the socio-economic transformation of Japan through works like Fabricating Consumers (2011) and A Modern History of Japan (2013).
Education: A.B. (1975) and Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages (1981) from Harvard University. Prior to Harvard, he taught at Duke University from 1985 to 1995.
Research interests include modern Japan's economic and cultural history, labor movements, and cross-cultural analysis. His recent work examines Japan's 'lost decades' (1990s–2000s). Awards include the John King Fairbank Prize and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014).
Grants and advising: Longstanding mentorship in Japanese studies and supervision of doctoral research. Active in interdisciplinary projects combining history with cultural and economic analysis.
Labs/Teams: Collaborations through the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies and Harvard's History Department networks.
