Gabrielle Hecht
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Gabrielle Hecht

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Gabrielle Hecht (b. 1965, Puerto Rico) is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security at Stanford University, where she is affiliated with the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Department of History. She writes and teaches about the nuclear industry, the history and anthropology of technology, and modern Africa. Her recent book, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade, was awarded the Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science, the American Historical Association's Martin Klein Prize in African history, the American Sociological Association's Robert Merton Prize, and the Susanne Glasscock Humanities Book Prize, as well as an Honorable Mention for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize. Her first monograph, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity, was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History and the Edelstein Prize in the History of Technology. Hecht has been a visiting scholar at universities in South Africa, the Netherlands, Norway, and France.
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