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After his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard, Professor Andrew Gordon taught at Duke University from 1984 to 1995. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1995 and was director of the Reischauer Institute from 1998 to 2004. His publications include: The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955 (1985); Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (1991); Postwar Japan as History (editor, 1993; The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan (1998); A Modern History of Japan (2002, second edition in 2008), translated into Korean in 2005 and in Chinese and Japanese in 2006; and Nihonjin ga shiranai Matsuzaka mejaa kakumei [Matsuzaka's Unknown Major League Revolution] Asahi shinsho (2007). Professor Gordon's current research focuses on the emergence of the modern consumer in twentieth-century Japan with particular attention to the impact of the sewing machine as a consumer and home-based producer good.

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