James L. Nolan, Jr.
James L. Nolan, Jr. is the Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at Williams College. His teaching and research interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change, and historical comparative sociology. His most recent book, Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, was published with Harvard University Press in 2020.
Nolan is leading the Nagasaki Bell Project, an effort to replace the second bell of the rebuilt Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, originally demolished by the Fat Man bomb in 1945. Because only one of the cathedral’s original bells was recovered from the ruins, the cathedral’s left bell tower has remained empty since its being rebuilt. The Nagasaki Bell Project seeks to replace and install a second bell before the 80th anniversary of the bombing (August 9, 2025).
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