Jordan Sand is an American Japanologist.
He is a professor of Japanese history and culture at Georgetown University with a focus on the architectural and cultural history of Japan.
[2] His specialization is the urban and architectural history of Japan.
[2] His book, House and Home in Modern Japan (2004), received the 2005 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 2005 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, and the 2004 John K. Fairbank Prize.
[5][6] Sand received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022 to finish writing a book about the Ise Grand Shrine.