Marc Gallicchio

Professor and Chair at Villanova University

Schools

  • Villanova University

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Biography

Villanova University

Education

  • PhD, History, Temple University, 1986.
  • MA, The Pennsylvania State University, 1977.
  • BA, Temple University, 1975.

Publications

Books

  • Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II. Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945(With Waldo Heinrichs). Oxford University Press, 2017
  • The Scramble for Asia: U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.
  • Editor, The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations.Durham: Duke University Press,2007.
  • The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895- 1945.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. (Published in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten, 2013)
  • The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire.Columbia University Press, 1988.

Selected Articles

  • "World War II in Historical Memory" in Thomas Zeiler (Ed.), Blackwell Companion to World War II. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell,2013.
  • "Truman, Unconditional Surrender, and a New Deal for Japan". In James Matray (Ed.), The Legacy of Harry S. Truman in East Asia: Japan, China, and the Two Koreas. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2012
  • "African Americans and the Asia Pacific War," 247-278 in The Asia Pacific War. volume 3, Mobilization, Resistance and Collaboration Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006; edited by Aiko Kurasawa, Toru Sugihara, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, and Yui Daizaburo.
  • "Memory and the Lost Found Relationship between Black Americans and Japan, " in Chihiro Hosoya, Akira Iriye, Ryo Oshiba, eds. Kokuto shiento Paru Habu (Pearl Harbor as Memory). Tokyo: Minerva Asabu, 2004.
  • "Occupation, Dominion, and Alliance: Japan in American Security Policy, 1945-1969," in Akira Iriye and Robert A. Wampler, eds. Partnership: The United States and Japan, 1951-2001. Tokyo: Kodansha, May 2001.
  • "The Other China Hands: U.S. Army Officers and America 's Failure in China, 1941-1950,"The Journal of American-East Asian Relations (Spring, 1995).
  • "After Nagasaki: George Marshall's Plan for the Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Japan," Prologue (December 1991).
  • "The Kuriles Controversy: U.S. Diplomacy in the Soviet-Japan Border Dispute 1941-1956." Pacific Historical Review (February, 1991).

Grants

  • Research Grant, Earhart Foundation, Spring 2015.
  • Summer Research Fellowship, Villanova University, 2014.
  • Special Research Grant, Villanova University, 2003.
  • Research Fellow for the Japan Foundation-National Security Archive Project on Power and Prosperity: Linkages Between Security and Economics in American-Japanese Relations, 1997-2000.
  • American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1991.
  • U.S. Military History Institute Fellowship for Advanced Research, 1991
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant, 1989.

Honors and Awards

  • Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, 2018.
  • Bronze Award, Book of the Year, Military History Monthly, 2018.
  • Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Villanova University, 2018.
  • J. William Fulbright Lecturer, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, 2004-2005.
  • Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2000.
  • J. William Fulbright Lecturer, University of Tokyo and Kyoritsu Women 's University, 1998-1999.
  • Best Article, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Stuart L. Bernath Article Prize, 1992.

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