Brenton Buchanan

Brenton Buchanan is a PhD candidate in modern Japanese history and culture at the University of Toronto. He received his B.A. (2010) in Interdisciplinary Studies from Boise State University and his M.A. (2013) in Japan Studies from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. His dissertation applies a transpacific approach to understanding post-war histories, memories, and representations of early Cold War nuclear development. Triangulating between Japanese, Marshallese, and North American nuclear geographies his research examines meanings and knowledge produced through scientific, political, and cultural discourses, and how varying representations and understandings of the atomic bomb can highlight some bodies and places while erasing others.