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Robert Alan Jacobs

ロバート ジェイコブズ | Robert Alan Jacobs
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (1): History - General
Research keywords  (6): popular culture studies ,  war and peace studies ,  nuclear testing ,  hibakusha studies ,  American history and culture ,  Nuclear weapons
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (3):
  • 2020 - 2022 American hibakusha: radiation affected communities inside of the United States of America
  • 2018 - 2019 Nuclear power plant disasters: oral histories at Chernobyl and Windscale
  • 2008 - 2011 The Study of the Use of Information Gathered at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission to Design Plans for Radiological Warfare and for Troop Participation in Nuclear Tests in the United States
Papers (30):
  • Mick Broderick, Robert Jacobs. Managing The Days: personal responsibility and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Asia-Pacific Journal. 2023. 21. 10
  • Four legs good, two legs bad: animals return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Arcadia. 2023. 21
  • Not seeing the contaminated forest for the decontaminated trees in Fukushima. The Asia-Pacific Journal. 2021. 19. 17
  • “Born violent: the birth of nuclear power”. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding. 2019. 7. 1. 9-29
  • Robert Jacobs. “The visible and the invisible when considering Northern European spent permanent spent nuclear fuel storage”. Hiroshima Peace Research Journal. 2018. 5. 13-33
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Books (20):
  • グローバル・ヒバクシャ
    名古屋大学出版会 2025 ISBN:9784815811884
  • John Scott: Firestorm
    Figure 1 Publishing 2024 ISBN:9781773272726
  • Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha
    Yale University Press 2022 ISBN:9780300230338
  • After Fukushima: Legacies of 3.11
    University of Pennsylvania Press 2020
  • War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
    Cambridge University Press 2019
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Lectures and oral presentations  (54):
  • The Pacific as a Fallout Sink
    (Atomic Photographers Guild Speaker Series 2025)
  • Nuclear weapon development and possession as violence: the global hibakusha
    (Hiroshima Peace Institute International Symposium, “Victims of Nuclear Weapons in Global Contexts: Appealing - ‘No More Hibaksha’ Now 2024)
  • Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha. How millions harmed by nuclear weapons and power have been made invisible during the Cold War and after
    (History Seminar Series, University of New South Wales 2024)
  • Is Hiroshima still radioactive?: nuclear explosions and the environment
    (Inaugural Hiroshima Seminar at the Museum of Literature Ireland 2024)
  • Greenwashing plutonium: transforming US nuclear weapon legacy sites into nature preserves
    (Hiroshima, America, and Nuclear Legacies” symposium presented to the 49th annual conference of the Chugoku-Shikoku Association of American Studies 2022)
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Education (1):
  • - 2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History
Work history (2):
  • 2016/04/01 - Research Professor: Hiroshima Peace Institute / Hiroshima City University
  • 2010/04/01 - 2016/03/31 Research Associate Professor: Hiroshima Peace Institute / Hiroshima City University
Committee career (5):
  • 2010 - 2010 Academic advisor Hibakusha: Our life to live (Memory Productions, 2010, a film by David Rothauser)
  • 2006 - 2010 H-Peace Listserv, H-NET Book Review Editor, Editorial Board member,
  • 2009 - Project member Imagine Peace! Zurich University for the Arts
  • 2009 - Project member Nonkilling History Research Committee, Center for Global Nonkilling
  • 2006 - Historians Against the War Speakers Bureau
Association Membership(s) (4):
Japanese American Studies Society ,  Society for the History of Technology ,  Society for Social Studies of Science ,  International Big History Association
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