Gabrielle Hecht (born 1965) is an American scholar of science and technology studies (STS) and Professor of History and (by courtesy) of Anthropology at Stanford University.
She is known for her works on nuclear power, radioactive residues, mine waste, air pollution, and the Anthropocene in Africa.
[1] She taught at Stanford from 1992 to 1998, before moving in 1999 to the University of Michigan, where she taught for 18 years, co-founding the STS program[2] with her partner, Paul N. Edwards.
Hecht is also a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in South Africa.
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