Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at Williams College
James L. Nolan, Jr. is the Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Sociology at Williams College. His teaching and research interests fall in the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change, and historical comparative sociology. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Harvard University Press, 2020) and What They Saw in America: Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He is currently working on a book about Nagasaki. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including a Fulbright scholarship and two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. He has held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Loughborough University, the University of Notre Dame, CUA, and Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University.
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