The C.V. for Dr. Jennifer Michael Hecht

EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - 1995, Columbia University: History of Science, Modern France. Bachelor of Arts - 1987, Adelphi University, Université de Caen, and Université d’Angers.

HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
Books:
• Doubt: A History--The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson (HarperCollins San Francisco, November 2003). Publication in Chinese, Portuguese, and Korean, forthcoming.
• The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Anthropology, and Atheism in France (Columbia University Press, July 2003).

Articles:
• “Vacher de Lapouge and the Rise of Nazi Science,” The Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (April 2000), 285-304.
• “The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate Over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890-1914,” Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 90 (Spring 1999), 1-24.
• “French Scientific Materialism and the Liturgy of Death: The Invention of a Secular Version of Catholic Last Rites (1876-1914),” French Historical Studies 20: 4 (Fall 1997), 703-735.
• “A Vigilant Anthropology: Léonce Manouvrier and the Disappearing Numbers,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 33: 3 (Summer 1997), 221-240.

Book Chapters:
• “The Solvency of Metaphysics: The Debate Over Racial Science and Moral Philosophy in France, 1890-1914,” in Science, Race, and Ethnicity, John P. Jackson Jr., editor (University of Chicago Press, 2002), 130-154. Originally published in Isis, as above.
• Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment (brief edition), with Thomas Noble, B. Strauss, D. Osheim, K. Neuschel, W. Cohen, and D. Roberts (Houghton Mifflin,1998).

RECENT CONFERENCES
• Otherness: The Construction of Race in the 20th Century, Webster University, St. Louis, December 5-6, 2003. “The Origins and Logic of Antiracism in France.”
• Race in the History of Science. Participant. Center for the Study of Diversity, MIT, February 2001.
• History of Science Society, November 8-11, 2001, Denver, Colorado. “Atheism, Evolution, Nihilism, and a Transcendental Turn: The Question of Secular Ethics in France, 1870-1914.”

TEACHING
Assistant Professor in History (tenured), Nassau Community College, 1994-present.
Instructor in History, Mannes College of Music, Division of The New School, 1993-1994.

POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Next Ancient World (Tupelo Press, 2001).

Collections:
• Poetry Daily, Boller, Selby, and Yost, eds. (Sourcebooks, 2003).
• Good Poems, Garrison Keillor, ed. (Viking/Penguin, 2002).
• Poems to Live by in Uncertain Times, Joan Murray, ed. (Beacon, 2001).
• The Best American Poetry 1999, Robert Bly and David Lehman, eds. (Scribners, 1999).

Journals:
Poetry, Partisan Review, Ms. Magazine, Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Gettysburg Review, Southern Review, Salmagundi, Quarterly West, Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, River City, and others.

AWARDS
For The Next Ancient World:
• Tupelo Press Judge’s Prize (2000).
• Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award (2002).
• ForeWord Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year (2002).

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, Nassau Community College, 2003.
Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, Nassau Community College, 2001.
Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, Nassau Community College, 1999.

ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND PRINT INTERVIEWS
• “What Frank O’Hara Means to Me,” Mississippi Review: Poets of the New York School 31:3 (Fall 2003), 149-161.
• Interview: “Let There Be Brights,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 8, 2003) Section 2, B4.
• “Review of Jacqueline Duvernay-Bolens’ Les Géants patagons: Voyage aux origines de l’homme,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 33: 3 (Summer 1997), 340.

RADIO INTERVIEWS (NATIONAL)
• “A History of Doubt with Jennifer Michael Hecht,” Speaking of Faith, hosted by Krista Tippett, Minnesota Public Radio, December 11, 2003. (To listen, search Speaking of Faith website archives.)
• “Doubt: A History,” Talk of the Nation, hosted by Neal Conan, National Public Radio, November 13, 2003. (To listen, search Talk of the Nation website archives.)

Links for Dr. Jennifer Michael Hecht

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