Combining the resources of faculty in EALAC and the Department of History, the degree program in Japanese History covers all periods up until the present. It forms part of the interdepartmental “History–East Asia” program, to which students may apply either through EALAC or the Department of History. Applications through either department are reviewed as part of the same pool.
David Lurie teaches broadly on pre-modern and early-modern Japanese history and culture, with research interests that include the history of writing systems; dictionaries and encyclopedias; linguistic thought; myth formation; epigraphy and archeology; and cultural, intellectual, and literary history writ large. EALAC is currently hiring a modern Japanese history professor, and hopes to search for a second Japanese history position in the near future.