Jordan Sand

Jordan Sand is an American Japanologist. He is a professor of Japanese history and culture at Georgetown University with a focus on the architectural and cultural history of Japan.

Biography
Sand received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, and a M.E. from the University of Tokyo in architectural history. His specialization is the urban and architectural history of Japan. He is also an affiliated researcher at Waseda University.

His book, House and Home in Modern Japan (2004), received the 2005 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 2005 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, and the 2004 John K. Fairbank Prize.

Sand received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022 to finish writing a book about the Ise Grand Shrine.