Robert Jacobs

Robert Jacobs is an associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute at Hiroshima City University. He is the author of The Dragon’s Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age (2010), the editor of Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb (2010), and coeditor of Images of Rupture in Civilization Between East and West: The Iconography of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in Eastern European Arts and Media (2016-forthcoming). His book, The Dragon’s Tail, will be released in a Japanese language edition by Gaifu in April. He is the principal investigator of the Global Hibakusha Project.