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Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College

David K. Hecht is a historian of science, focusing on the modern United States. His particular interest is in public images of science, and he has published on the phenomenon of "scientific celebrities." His book Storytelling and Science: Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age will be published in May 2015 (University of Massachusetts Press), and he is currently researching a second book project, Rachel Carson and the Challenge of Environmentalism. Other scholarly interests include the history of energy, as well as the role that popular rhetoric about science plays in reinforcing (and sometimes challenging) the status quo. His courses including "The Nuclear Age," "The History of Energy," "Image, Myth, and Memory," and "Science and Society." In 2011 he was awarded the Sydney B. Karofsky prize, Bowdoin's annual teaching prize for junior faculty.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of History, Bowdoin College