Jordan Sand

Jordan Sand

Fellow: Awarded 2022
Field of Study: East Asian Studies

Jordan Sand is a social and cultural historian of Japan and the Asia-Pacific. He has written widely on topics in urbanism, architecture, museums, material culture, and the history of everyday life, including food and human-animal relations. Two themes connect most of this work: first, how materiality and bodily practice have mediated formations of class, gender, and nation, as well as local identities; and second, how societies have coped with the impermanence of the material world, particularly buildings and monuments. He holds a master’s degree in architecture history from the University of Tokyo and a doctorate from Columbia University in history. His publications include House and Home in Modern Japan (2004), Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects (2013), and『帝国日本の生活空間』(Living Spaces of Imperial Japan; 2015). Edited works include Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World (Wisconsin, 2012) and special features in Journal of Asian Studies, Impressions, Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Positions, Amerasia, City and Society, and Journal of Urban History.

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