Andrew Gordon is an American Japanologist who is a scholar of modern Japanese history. He is a Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University and former chair of the Department of History there from 2004 to 2007. He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1998 through 2004 and again from 2010 through 2011. From 2016 to 2017, Gordon was the acting director of the Harvard University Asia Center. Additionally, as of 2020, he was the director of the Japan Disasters Digital Archive, a catalog and search engine for archived digital material relating to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.