Jordan Sand
Jordan Sand | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Modern Japan History Association Distinguished Annual Lecturer (2026) Guggenheim Fellowship (2022) John Whitney Hall Book Prize (2005) Alice Davis Hitchcock Award (2005) John K. Fairbank Prize (2004) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | History of Japan |
| Institutions | |
Notable works | House and Home in Modern Japan (2004) Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (2013) |
Jordan Sand is an American Japanologist. He is a professor of Japanese history and culture at Georgetown University with a focus on the architectural and cultural history of Japan.[1]
Biography
[edit]Sand received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, and a M.E. from the University of Tokyo in architectural history.[2] His specialization is the urban and architectural history of Japan.[3][4] He is also an affiliated researcher at Waseda University.[2]
His book, House and Home in Modern Japan (2004), received the 2005 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 2005 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, and the 2004 John K. Fairbank Prize.[5][6]
Sand received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022 to finish writing a book about the Ise Grand Shrine.[7][8] In 2026, Sand was selected as Distinguished Annual Lecturer by the Modern Japan History Association.[9]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- 1 2 Sand, Jordan. "Jordan Sand cv 2022.3".
- ↑ Sand, Jordan (2020-05-11). House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930. Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-1-68417-384-6.
- ↑ Slade, Toby (2015-01-02). "Jordan Sand, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects". Japanese Studies. 35 (1): 121–123. doi:10.1080/10371397.2015.1015212. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 141524541.
- ↑ "House and Home in Modern Japan — Jordan Sand". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "Jordan Sand". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "East Asian Studies Professor Named Guggenheim Fellow". 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
- ↑ "MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture". Modern Japan History Association. Retrieved March 18, 2026.
