Helen Hardacre
Helen Hardacre (born May 20, 1949) is an American Japanologist. She is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at the Departement of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University. Biography. Hardacre was born on May 20, 1949 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, daughter of Paul Hoswell and Gracia Louise (Manspeaker) Hardacre. She received her Bachelor of Arts (1971) and Master of Arts (1972) at Vanderbilt University, and completed her PhD at University of Chicago, studying under Joseph Kitagawa. In 1980, she began her academic career at Princeton University's Department of Religion and taught there  until 1989. She then spent two years at the School of Modern Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia. She then moved to Harvard in 1992 and stayed there since then. She is currently the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at the Departement of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University. She was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1995 through 1998. Her interests include Japanese society and religion and the ramifications of potential constitutional amendments on the future of religion in Japan. She, like her British historian father, would be awarded a Gugghenheim  fellowship (2003). In 2014, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018, she awarded the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Government of Japan, Selected works. In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Helen Hardacre, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 80+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings