James L. Nolan, Jr., Ph.D. in Sociology, is the Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at Williams College. His most recent book, Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Harvard University Press, 2020) is a unique look at the role of the medical doctors on the Manhattan Project and the early years of the nuclear age. He is the author of a number of other books, including, What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing: The International Problem-Solving Court Movement (Princeton University Press, 2009). He has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, the University of Notre Dame, Loughborough University, CUA, and Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University.
