Gabrielle Hecht
Gabrielle Hecht | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 (age 59–60) Puerto Rico |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD), MIT (BS) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | history |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Main interests | history and anthropology of technology |
| Website | gabriellehecht.org |
Gabrielle Hecht (born 1965) is an American scholar of science and technology studies (STS) and Professor of History and (by courtesy) of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is known for her works on nuclear power, radioactive residues, mine waste, air pollution, and the Anthropocene in Africa.[1] She taught at Stanford from 1992 to 1998, before moving in 1999 to the University of Michigan, where she taught for 18 years, co-founding the STS program[2] with her partner, Paul N. Edwards. Hecht is also a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in South Africa.[3]
Books
- Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
- Uranium africain: une histoire globale
- Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
- Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War
- The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity (1998/ 2nd ed 2009)
References
- ^ "Gabrielle Hecht | Department of History". history.stanford.edu.
- ^ "Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS) | U-M LSA Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS)". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
- ^ "Gabrielle Hecht | Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research". wiser.wits.ac.za. Retrieved February 2, 2025.