Shigehisa Kuriyama

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

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

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
  1. "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.
  2. "Shigehisa Kuriyama". Harvard.edu. Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
  3. Bradt, Steve (April 21, 2005), "Japanologist brings broad perspective: Kuriyama named Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History", Harvard University Gazette, Harvard University.
  4. "Faculty profile: Shigehisa Kuriyama". Harvard.edu. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
  5. Powell, Alvin (March 23, 2006), "Kuriyama examines body and culture", Harvard University Gazette, Harvard University.
  6. "Past William H. Welch Medalists". histmed.org. American Association for the History of Medicine. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
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