Marc Gallicchio is the Mary M. Birle Chair in American History at Villanova University. He is the author of Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II (2020), The African American Encounter with Japan & China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895–1945 (2000), which won the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Prize, and coauthor with Waldo Heinrichs of Implacable Foes: War in The Pacific, 1944–1945 (2017) that was recipient of the Bancroft Prize.
Dennis M. Giangreco served as an editor at Military Review, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, for twenty years and subsequently as the Editor-Publications Director of the Foreign Military Studies Office. Giangreco received the Society for Military History’s Moncado Prize for his study “Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan: Planning and Policy Implications” and authored 14 books. His most recent works are Truman and The Bomb: The Untold Story and Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945–1947.
Charles W. Hayford served two terms as editor, Journal of American-East Asian Relations (2006–2012). His publications include To the People: James Yen and Village China (1990), articles on Chinese and Japanese film, Chinese food inside and outside China, Chinese professions, military history, biography, and historiography. His most recent publication is “Ji Chaozhu: A Man in the Middle,” in Deborah Davis and Terrill Lautz, eds., Chinese Encounters with America (Columbia University Press, 2025).
Andrew O. Pace is a DPAA Research Partner Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher in Military History in the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He specializes in U.S. grand strategy during World War II and the Cold War, the moral fog of war, and forensic history. He is currently completing his first book manuscript titled Total Victory: Unconditional Surrender and Unlimited War in World War II.
Atsuko Shigesawa is a professor in the English Studies Department at the Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She specializes in American history. Shigesawa wrote Genbaku-to-Ken’etsu (The Atomic Bomb and the Censorship) and has translated American authored books, including Kate Brown’s Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster. Her research interests include discourses on the atomic bomb, media representations of nuclear issues, and race relations during the Cold War.
Xu Guoqi is David Chang Professor of History and the founding director of the Institute of the Transnational History at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Xu is the author of the following books in English: The Idea of China: A Contested History, Asia and the Great War: A Shared History, Chinese and Americans: A Shared History, Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War, Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, and China and the Great War. He writes widely in Chinese language as well.
