Shigehisa Kuriyama is the Reischauer Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University. His research probes broad philosophical issues through the lens of specific topics in comparative cultural and medical history.  His award-winning book The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (1999) has been translated into Greek, Chinese, Spanish, and Korean. His current projects include studies on profound forgetfulness, the imagination of strings, and the evolution of happiness.

As of September 2026