Harry Harootunian received his B.A. from Wayne State (1951), M.A. in Far Eastern Studies and Ph.D. 1958 in History from Michigan. His prolific publications include History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice and the Question of the Everyday Life (Columbia UP, 2000), Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Commodity in Interwar Japan (Princeton UP, 2000), Japan in the World, ed. with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1993), and Postmodernism in Japan, with Masao Miyoshi (Duke UP, 1989).Professor Harootunian was formerly the Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, the Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, editor of Journal for Asian Studies, and co-editor of Critical Inquiry.
Harry Harootunian
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. 1958, University of Michigan
Early modern and modern Japanese history, historical theory
Overcome by Modernity: Historical Surplus and the Search for Cultural Authenticity in Interwar Japan, University of California Press. Forthcoming.
An Asia-Pacific series, coed. with Rey Chow and Masao Miyoshi. Duke University Press. Forthcoming.
Japan in the World, ed. with Masao Miyoshi. Duke University Press. 1993.
Toward Restoration. University of California Press. 1991.
Postmodernism in Japan, with Masao Miyoshi. Duke University Press. 1989.
Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism. University of Chicago Press. 1988.