Research theme for competitive and other funds (5):
2020 - 2023 John Hersey's Hiroshima Revisited: Formation of Atomic Bomb Narrative
2019 - 2023 Basic Research on Press Coverage of the Atomic Bombings
2014 - 2015 Creating the official narrative of atomic bombing and Japanese surrender:an American attempt to counter the USSBS's counterfactual hypothesis
2013 - 2014 The formation of the narratives of the atomic bombing and Japanese surrender: with a focus on the reports of the US Strategic Bombing Survey
2011 - 2011 Press Freedom and Censorship in the US: with an emphais on the press action during World War II
Papers (9):
Atsuko Shigesawa. Demystifying the Atomic Bomb: The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Goes to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University. 2019. i-454
Shigesawa Atsuko. From the STINKO to the USSBS motion picture project: Daniel A. McGovern and the Army Air Forces' first atomic bomb films. 2017. 67. 3. 107-130
Shigesawa Atsuko. National Model United Nations and the First Student Press Corps : With a Thought on Journalism Education at Japanese Universities (NMUN 2016 : Stakeholder Perspectives on Learning Processes and Outcomes). 2017. 57. 101-115
Atsuko Shigesawa. A Revolutionary Weapon or Just Another Bomb? : USSBS and an Early Postwar Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb. Journal of Historical Studies. 2016. 951. 52-63
Studies of the media coverage of the atomic bombing
2023 ISBN:9784877853846
Hiroshima: The World's Bomb
2022 ISBN:9784623094325
Hiroshima-75 : Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts, edited by Aya Fujiwara and David R. Marples
Stuttgart, Germany: ibidem Press/New York: Columbia University Press 2020 ISBN:9783838213989
Demystifying the Effects of Radiation: The Earliest Postwar Surveys and Missed Opportunities for Humanity
(2023 Annual Nuclear Security Summit at Georgetown: Low Dose Radiation: From Nuclear Incidents to Space Exploration 2023)
The Japanese "were not prepared for a holocaust": The British Mission and their reports on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(British Association for Japanese Studies 2022 Conference in Manchester, UK 2022)
From John Hersey’s Hiroshima to Fukushima: The Atomic General’s Long Shadow over the Nuclear Narrative
(Hiroshima-Nagasaki-Fukushima: Artiulations of the Nuclear 2022)
White Light/Black Rain by Steven Okazaki
Co-Producer 2007 - 2007
Special program for 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing aired by BBC/PRI The World
a producer 2005 - 2005
World Birth Day produced by Granada for Discovery Channel
Atsuko Shigesawa, a local fixer 2003 - 2003
Education (4):
2009 - 2018 Hiroshima City University Graduate School of International Studies
2014 - 2015 American University Department of History
2010 - 2011 University of Hawai'i at Manoa Department of American Studies
2008 - 2009 Hiroshima City University Graduate School of International Studies
Professional career (1):
PhD. (Hiroshima City University)
Work history (1):
2016/04 - 現在 Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Studies associate professor
Awards (1):
2015/04 - Organization of American Historian/Japan Association of American Studies Japan Residencies Program Award
Association Membership(s) (5):
The Japanese Association for American History
, The Society of American History in Kansai
, 占領・戦後史研究会
, Peace Studies Association of Japan
, The Japanese Association for American Studies