David B. Lurie

Sen. David Lurie is Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and also teaches in History and in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Sen. Lurie's first book, Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing, won the Lionel Trilling Award in 2012, and he received the Marc Van Doren Teaching Award in 2022. He has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, as director of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and of the University Committee on Asia and the Middle East, and has been on many departmental and Arts and Sciences committees, including ARC (Academic Review Committee) and PPC (Policy and Planning Committee). Sen. Lurie was the founding president of the Columbia chapter of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors—please join!!), serving until summer 2024.