{{nihongo|'''Shigehisa Kuriyama'''|栗山茂久|Kuriyama Shigehisa}} (born in [[Marugame]], [[Japan]])<ref name="rijs">[http://wwwealc.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/people/faculty/s_kuriyama.htmlshigehisa-kuriyama Faculty profile], Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, retrieved 20102014-0501-0814.</ref> is a [[Japanologist]] and [[history of medicine|historian of medicine]], the Reischauer Institute Professor of [[Cultural History]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>[http://harvardealcealc.org/biographyfas.php?personId=236harvard.edu/people/shigehisa-kuriyama Faculty profile], Dept. of [[EALC|East Asian Languages and Civilizations]], Harvard University, retrieved 20102014-0501-0814.</ref><ref name="jbbp">{{citation|title=Japanologist brings broad perspective: Kuriyama named Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History|journal=Harvard University Gazette|date=April 21, 2005|first=Steve|last=Bradt|url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/04.21/13-kuriyama.html}}.</ref>
Kuriyama studied at [[Phillips Exeter Academy]],<ref name="rijs"/> and then Harvard, receiving an A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. He then moved to Harvard's Department of the History of Science, which awarded him a Ph.D. in 1986. He joined the Harvard faculty as Reischauer Professor in 2005, after previously working at the [[University of New Hampshire]], [[Emory University]], and the [[International Research Center for Japanese Studies]] in [[Kyoto]], [[Japan]].<ref name="jbbp"/>
