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Copyright 2001
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
  Gabrielle Hecht

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania, 1992

Other U of M Affiliation:

Program in Science, Technology, and Society; Faculty Associate, Program in Anthropology and History

Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2666 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-647-7937
E-mail: hechtg@umich.edu
Office Hours: On leave 2009-2010
Field(s) of Study:
History of technology; nuclear power and proliferation; colonialism and postcoloniality; globalization; labor; national identity; modern Africa (Gabon, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa); modern France.
Homepage:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~hechtg
Selected Publications:
Books

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998).
• 2004 Re-publication as an ACLS e-book.
• New print edition, MIT Press, 2009; foreword by Michel Callon and afterword by the author.
Awards: Edelstein Prize (2001), Society for the History of Technology; Henry Baxter Adams Prize (1999), American Historical Association; Runner-up, Ludwik Fleck Prize (2000), Society for the Social Studies of Science, for The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998).

Le rayonnement de la France: Énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la seconde guerre mondiale (Paris, France: Éditions de la Découverte, Collection Anthropologie des Sciences et Techniques, 2004).

Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes (MIT Press, 2001). Co-editor with Michael Thad Allen.

Articles & essays

“Africa and the Nuclear World: Labor, Occupational Health, and the Transnational Production of Uranium,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 51-4 (October 2009), forthcoming.

“Uranium from Africa,” Chimurenga 14: Everyone Has Their Indian (March 2009).

“The Technopolitics of Cold War: Towards a Transregional Perspective,” with Paul N. Edwards. American Historical Association series in Global and Comparative History, Michael Adas, ed., 2008.

“Nuclear Ontologies,” Constellations 13:3 (September 2006): 320-331.

“Negotiating Global Nuclearities: Apartheid, Decolonization, and the Cold War in the making of the IAEA,” in John Krige and Kai-Henrik Barth, eds., Global Power Knowledge: Science, Technology, and International Affairs, in Osiris 21 (July 2006): 25-48.

“Rupture-talk in the Nuclear Age: Conjugating Colonial Power in Africa,” Social Studies of Science Vol. 32, Nos. 5-6 (October-December 2002): 691-728.

“Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France,” Technology and Culture (October 1994): 657-685.
Awards: Abbott Payson Usher Prize (1996), Society for the History of Technology; Levinson Prize (1991), Society for the History of Technology (in mss form); Newcomen Prize (1991), Newcomen Society (in mss form).

Current Projects:
Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things. Current monograph in progress. Expected completion in 2010.

Bodies, Networks, Geographies: Imperialism, Development, and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War. Edited volume, under review.

The Technopolitics of Apartheid in Southern Africa, with Paul N. Edwards. Monograph in (early stages of) progress.

 

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