Gabrielle Hecht

Professor
Department of History, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 – USA
Tel: 1 (734) 647-7937; Fax: 1 (734) 647-4881
hechtg@umich.edu
Program in Science, Technology and Society

Current Research | Selected Publications | Courses Taught | Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

Works In Progress

• After Fukushima: Climate Science, Nuclear Power, and Global Warming, with Paul N. Edwards; currently in early conception phase
• The Technopolitics of Apartheid in Southern Africa, with Paul N. Edwards; currently in progress

Selected Publications

Books

	Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press, 2012)		Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War  Edited by Gabrielle Hecht (MIT Press, 2011)
	The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press, 1998, 2009) — ACLS e-book version Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology Henry Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association Fleck Prize runner-up, Society for Social Studies of Science		Le rayonnement de la France: Énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la seconde guerre mondiale Translation of The Radiance of France. (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 Co-edited with Michael Thad Allen (MIT Press, 2001)

Articles and Essays

• "Hopes for the Radiated Body: Uranium Miners and Transnational Technopolitics in Namibia," Journal of African History 51:2 (June 2010): 213-234
• "History and the Technopolitics of Identity: The Case of Apartheid South Africa," Paul N. Edwards and Gabrielle Hecht, Journal of Southern African Studies 36:3 (Sept. 2010): 619-638
• "The Power of Nuclear Things," Technology and Culture 51 (January 2010): 1-30
• "Africa and the Nuclear World: Labor, Occupational Health, and the Transnational Production of Uranium," Comparative Studies in Society and History 51:4 (October 2009): 896-926
• The Technopolitics of Cold War: Toward a Transregional Perspective, Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards, Essays in Global and Comparative History series, American History Association (2008)
• "Quelques mots coloniaux à propos de la nucléarité exceptionnelle de la France, et de la banalité du nucléaire français," Cosmopolitiques 16 (septembre 2007): 181-195
• "A Cosmogram for Nuclear Things," Isis 98 (March 2007): 100-108
• "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, Osiris 21 (July 2006): 25-48
• "Globalization meets Frankenstein? Reflections on Terrorism and Technopolitics in the Nuclear Age," History and Technology, vol. 19 (March 2003): 1-8. Reprinted in: Alan O'Day, ed., Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism, Ashgate Publishing's International Library of Essays in Terrorism (Ashgate, 2004)
• "Rupture-talk in the Nuclear Age: Conjugating Colonial Power in Africa," part of a special issue on "Postcolonial Technoscience," eds. Gabrielle Hecht and Warwick Anderson, Social Studies of Science 32:5-6 (October -December 2002): 691-728
• "Technology, Politics, and National Identity in France," in Technologies of Power, eds. Michael Allen and Gabrielle Hecht (MIT Press, 2001): 253-294
• "Rebels and Pioneers: Technocratic Ideologies and Social Identities in the French Nuclear Workplace, 1955-1969," Social Studies of Science 26:3 (August 1996): 483-530
• "Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France," Technology and Culture (October 1994): 657-685

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses

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• Global Nuclear Proliferation (colloquium)
• Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (lecture)
• Globalization in History: Making the Modern World (lecture/seminar)
• Race, Gender, and Empire in the Nuclear Age (research seminar)

Graduate Courses

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• Knowledge/Power/Practice in Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Bodies, Technologies, and Nature(s) in Africa
• Technology in Colonialism, Development, and Globalization
• Technology as Power: Ideology, Infrastructure, Practice

CV

Gabrielle Hecht's CV, last updated September 2011