Toshihiro Higuchi
Fellow
Term
September 3, 2024 — May 23, 2025
Professional affiliation
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Expertise
- Cold War
- Energy
- Environment
- Global Health
- Global Governance
- History
- Science and Technology
- Security and Defense
- US Politics
Wilson Center Projects
Nuclear Marine Propulsion and the Oceanic History of American Empire
Full Biography
Toshihiro Higuchi is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. He studies the international history of the nuclear age with a focus on its scientific, technological, and environmental aspects. He is a recipient of the 2021 Michael H. Hunt Book Prize in International History for his book, Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2020), awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Currently, Higuchi is working on his next book project on the oceanic history of post-1945 American empire through the lens of nuclear marine propulsion.
Major Publications
- Higuchi, Toshihiro. Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.
- Higuchi, Toshihiro. "Mutsu Adrift: A Nuclear Ship, Scallop Growers, and the Inescapable Ecologies of Mutsu Bay.” In Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History, ed. Stefan Huebner, et al. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2024.
- Higuchi, Toshihiro, & Jacques E. C. Hymans. “Materialized Internationalism: How the IAEA Made the Vinca Dosimetry Experiment, and How the Experiment Made the IAEA.” Centaurus 63, no. 2 (2021): 244-61.