Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She has written award-winning books such as Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press and Wits University Press, 2012). Gabrielle serves as scientific advisor on the board of ANDRA, France’s national radioactive waste management agency, among others. More broadly, her scholarship addresses themes such as technopolitics, occupational and environmental health, labor, ontological politics, and nationalism, colonialism and post-coloniality. She is currently working on 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.”