RIJS People

RIJS People

Faculty

Harvard’s leadership in developing Japanese studies since the 1930s has been founded on the excellence of its faculty who serve on the Reischauer Institute committee and oversee its program.

Ryūichi Abé
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

Theodore C. Bestor
Professor of Anthropology

Harold Bolitho
Professor of Japanese History

Mary C. Brinton
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology

Albert M. Craig
Harvard-Yenching Professor of History Emeritus

Edwin Cranston
Professor of Japanese Literature

John Doyle
Professor of Physics

Margarita Estévez-Abe
Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy

Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History

Helen Hardacre
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society

Takao Hensch
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Howard Hibbett
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Japanese Literature Emeritus

Akira Iriye
Charles Warren Research Professor of American History

Wesley Jacobsen
Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Langage and Director of the Japanese Language Program

Toshihiro Katayama
Professor of the Practice of Graphic Design Emeritus

Adam L. Kern
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature

Susumu Kuno
Professor of Linguistics Emeritus

Shigehisa Kuriyama
Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History

Yukio Lippit
Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities

Melissa McCormick
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

Ian Jared Miller
Assistant Professor of History

Toshiko Mori
Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture

Mark Mulligan
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture

Oliver Oldman
Learned Hand Professor of Law Emeritus

Susan J. Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics

J. Mark Ramseyer
Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies

Michael Reich
Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy

John M. Rosenfield
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East Asian Art Emeritus

Henry Rosovsky
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus

Jay Rubin
Takashima Research Professor of Japanese Humanities

Karen Thornber
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Ezra F. Vogel
Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus

Michael Y.Yoshino
Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus