Andrew Gordon Receives Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award

Faculty Associate Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University, is one of the recipients of the 2026 Everett I. Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. The Mentoring Awards, established in 1999 by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to recognize exceptional faculty mentorship, this year celebrated recipients for their holistic, tailored support of graduate students’ academic, personal, and professional growth. Gordon, whose own work focuses on public history and tourism in Japan and globally, with focus on industrial heritage sites, was praised for his consistent devotion to training new scholars.