Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History at Georgetown University, has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for East Asian Studies. Professor Sand is a social and cultural historian of Japan and the Asia-Pacific.
Since its establishment in 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted nearly $400 million in fellowships to over 18,000 individuals. Included in the recipients are Nobel laureates, members of national academies, and winners of prestigious awards such as the Pulitzer Prize. This year, 180 fellows representing 51 disciplines and artistic fields were selected from 2500 applicants.