Jordan Sand Explained

Discipline:	Japanese history
Awards:	Guggenheim Fellowship (2022) John Whitney Hall Book Prize (2005) Alice Davis Hitchcock Award (2005) John K. Fairbank Prize (2004)

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

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.

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]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Georgetown University Faculty Directory . 2022-05-28 . gufaculty360.georgetown.edu.
2. Sand . Jordan . Jordan Sand cv 2022.3 .
3. Book: Sand, Jordan . House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930 . 2020-05-11 . Harvard University Asia Center . 978-1-68417-384-6 . en.
4. Slade . Toby . 2015-01-02 . Jordan Sand, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects . Japanese Studies . 35 . 1 . 121–123 . 10.1080/10371397.2015.1015212 . 141524541 . 1037-1397.
5. Web site: House and Home in Modern Japan — Jordan Sand . 2022-05-28 . www.hup.harvard.edu . en.
6. Web site: John K. Fairbank Prize Recipients AHA . 2022-05-28 . www.historians.org.
7. Web site: Jordan Sand . 2022-05-28 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . en-US.
8. Web site: 2022-04-22 . East Asian Studies Professor Named Guggenheim Fellow . 2022-05-28 . en-US.