Living With Historical Uncertainty

Naoko Wake, PhD, is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is the author of Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism (Rutgers University Press, 2011) and the coauthor (with Shinpei Takeda) of Hiroshima/Nagasaki Beyond the Ocean (Yururi Books, 2014). She is currently writing her second monograph Bombing Americans: Gender and Trans-Pacific Remembering after World War II, which explores the history of Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 with a focus on U.S. survivors’ cross-national and gendered memory, identity, and activism.
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