Chad R. Diehl, Ph.D., Historian and Instructional Designer at the University of Virginia, is a historian of modern Japan who specializes in the history and memory of the Second World War. His research explores the human experience of war and its aftermath, especially that of non-military actors. Chad is the author of Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives (Cornell, 2018), which is based on years of archival research in Nagasaki and Tokyo. The book examines how competing interests among the Urakami Catholic community, municipal officials, and peace-activist groups shaped the city’s path to reconstruction. Chad is currently editing a multi-authored volume about post-atomic Nagasaki literature and history, and is writing his second monograph, which looks at the relationship between music and cultural memory in 1950s Japanese war films.

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