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Tsuyoshi Hasegawa Steps Down as CCWS Co-Director

In July 2008, after a decade-and-a-half of dedicated service to the Center, Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa stepped down as co-director of CCWS, taking a richly deserved opportunity to concentrate more fully on his own research and scholarship.  Professor Salim Yaqub became CCWS director. 

Professor Hasegawa was present at the creation—indeed he was one of the creators.  In 1994 he and Professor Fredrik Logevall (now at Cornell University) founded the Cold War History Group (COWHIG).  Over the ensuing years, under Hasegawa’s stewardship, the group expanded markedly in reach and scope, was established as the Center for Cold War Studies (now the Center for Cold War Studies and International History), joined forces with sister centers at the London School of Economics and George Washington University, and became an internationally recognized resource for Cold War-related scholarship, pedagogy, and public history.  Through it all, Professor Hasegawa continued to produce his own path-breaking scholarship.  His most recent book, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, won numerous awards, including the Robert Ferrell Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Tenth Shiba Ryotaro Prize.

We extend to Professor Hasegawa our heartfelt thanks for the thousands of hours he has devoted to CCWS and for his wise and creative leadership.  We wish him all the best in the next phase of his career and look forward to his continued involvement in the life of the Center.