Gabrielle Hecht

Associate 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

Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things. Current monograph in progress.
Bodies, Networks, Geographies: Colonialism, Development, and Cold War Technopolitics. Two workshops followed by an edited volume. Part of collaborative project on Inventing Europe. Work on volume funded by Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) for 2007.
The Technopolitics of Apartheid in Southern Africa, with Paul N. Edwards. Article and monograph in (early stages of) progress.

Reprinted as an ACLS e-book, available here.

Translation of The Radiance of France. (Paris, France: Éditions de la Découverte, Collection Anthropologie des Sciences et Techniques, 2004).

Co-edited with Michael Thad Allen (MIT Press, 2001).

[PDF] "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.
[PDF] "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).
[PDF] "Rupture-talk in the Nuclear Age: Conjugating Colonial Power in Africa," part of a special issue of Social Studies of Science on "Postcolonial Technoscience," co-edited with Warwick Anderson. Vol. 32, Nos. 5-6 (October -December 2002): 691-728.
[PDF] "Technology, Politics, and National Identity in France," in Technologies of Power, Allen and Hecht, eds. (MIT Press, 2001): 253-294.
[PDF] "Rebels and Pioneers: Technocratic Ideologies and Social Identities in the French Nuclear Workplace, 1955-1969," Social Studies of Science (August 1996), 26(3): 483-530.
[PDF] "Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France," Technology and Culture (October 1994): 657-685.

Links open the most recent course syllabus in PDF format.

Links open the most recent course syllabus in PDF format.

[PDF] Gabrielle Hecht's CV, updated December 2006.