Shigehisa Kuriyama
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Shigehisa "Hisa"[1] Kuriyama (栗山茂久, Kuriyama Shigehisa) is a Japanologist and historian of medicine. He is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University.[2][3]
Early life and education[edit]
Kuriyama was born in Marugame, Japan.[4] After his family moved for a time to the US, he studied at Phillips Exeter Academy.[4] Subsequently, he attended Harvard for all three of his degrees. He earned an A.B. degree from its Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. Afterwards, he received three years of training in acupuncture in Tokyo.[2][5] He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard's Department of the History of Science in 1986.
Career[edit]
Kuriyama has taught at the University of New Hampshire, Emory University (where he was the Chair for its Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA)) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.[3]
He authored The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (1999), a study of the different views of health and medicine held by the ancient Western civilization and Eastern civilizations.[5] This book won the 2001 William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.[6]
Kuriyama joined the Harvard faculty as Reischauer Professor in 2005. In 2013 he delivered the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, "What Truly Matters."
References[edit]
^ "First Fridays Lunch Talk Series : Hisa Kuriyama - November 6, 2015". Harvard.edu. Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
^ Jump up to:a b "Shigehisa Kuriyama". Harvard.edu. Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
^ Jump up to:a b Bradt, Steve (April 21, 2005), "Japanologist brings broad perspective: Kuriyama named Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History", Harvard University Gazette, Harvard University.
^ Jump up to:a b "Faculty profile: Shigehisa Kuriyama". Harvard.edu. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
^ Jump up to:a b Powell, Alvin (March 23, 2006), "Kuriyama examines body and culture", Harvard University Gazette, Harvard University.
^ "Past William H. Welch Medalists". histmed.org. American Association for the History of Medicine. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
Shigehisa Kuriyama
On leave 2022-23
Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After completing acupuncture studies in Tokyo, he entered Harvard's Department of the History of Science, which awarded him a Ph.D. in 1986. He joined the Harvard faculty as Reischauer Professor in 2005 after previously working at the University of New Hampshire, Emory University, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.
Kuriyama's research explores broad philosophical issues (being and time, representations and reality, knowing and feeling) through the lens of specific topics in comparative medical history (Japan, China, and Europe).
His book, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone, 1999), received the 2001 William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, and has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Spanish, and Korean.
His recent work includes studies on the history of distraction, the imagination of strings in the experience of presence, the transformation of money into a palpable humor in Edo Japan, the nature of hiddenness in traditional Chinese medicine, and the web of connections binding ginseng, opium, tea, silver, and MSG. Kuriyama has also been actively engaged in expanding the horizons of teaching and scholarly communication through the creative use of digital technologies both at Harvard and at other universities in the US and abroad.
