Gabrielle Hecht的作品
Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She holds a PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1992), and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from MIT (1986). Before arriving at UM in 1999, she taught at Stanford University. She’s been a visiting scholar in universities in Australia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden. She recently served as associate director of the University of Michigan’s African Studies Center, and remains an active participant in the ASC’s joint project with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (South Africa) on Joining Theory and Empiricism in the remaking of the African Humanities. Most of Hecht’s research has been on nuclear things. She has written books about uranium from Africa (specifically, Gabon, Madagascar, Namibia, Niger, and South Africa) and nuclear power in France. She recently advised the US Senate Committee on Investigations on the history of the uranium market for its report on Wall Street Bank Involvement with Physical Commodities. She currently sits on the advisory board for AGORAS, an interdisciplinary collaboration between academic and industry researchers to improve safety in French nuclear installations. More broadly, Hecht’s scholarship addresses themes such as technopolitics, occupational and environmental health, labor, ontological politics, and nationalism, colonialism, and post-coloniality. She is currently beginning a book on technology and power in Africa, as well as a series of essays on radioactive and other forms of waste, tentatively titled Toxic Tales from the African Anthropocene.
Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She holds a PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1992), and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from MIT (1986). Before arriving at UM in 1999, she taught at Stanford University. She’s been a visiting scholar in universities in Australia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden. She recently served as associate director of the University of Michigan’s African Studies Center, and remains an active participant in the ASC’s joint project with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (South Africa) on Joining Theory and Empiricism in the remaking of the African Humanities. Most of Hecht’s research has been on nuclear things. She has written books about uranium from Africa (specifically, Gabon, Madagascar, Namibia, Niger, and South Africa) and nuclear power in France. She recently advised the US Senate Committee on Investigations on the history of the uranium market for its report on Wall Street Bank Involvement with Physical Commodities. She currently sits on the advisory board for AGORAS, an interdisciplinary collaboration between academic and industry researchers to improve safety in French nuclear installations. More broadly, Hecht’s scholarship addresses themes such as technopolitics, occupational and environmental health, labor, ontological politics, and nationalism, colonialism, and post-coloniality. She is currently beginning a book on technology and power in Africa, as well as a series of essays on radioactive and other forms of waste, tentatively titled Toxic Tales from the African Anthropocene.