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Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Program in Anthropology and History
  • African Studies Center
  • Program in Science, Technology, and Society

• Fields of Study

  • Technology
  • Nuclear power and proliferation
  • Mining
  • Globalization
  • Labor
  • National identity
  • Colonial and post colonial Africa
  • Modern France

• About

  Selected Publications:

  Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press and Wits University Press, 2012)

  Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War, editor (MIT Press, 2011)

  The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998, new edition 2009)

• Education

  • Ph.D. Pennsylvania, 1992

• Research Areas of Interest

  • History of technology, nuclear power and proliferation, colonialism and postcoloniality, globalization, labor, national identity, modern Africa (Gabon, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa), modern France