Tobias Hecht (born 18 February 1964) is an American anthropologist,

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

, and translator. Hecht was born in

Seattle, Washington Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region ...

. He received his B.A. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1986 and his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

in Social Anthropology in 1995 from the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

, and was the winner of the 2002

Margaret Mead Award Margaret Mead Award is an award in the field of anthropology presented (solely) by the Society for Applied Anthropology from 1979 to 1983 and jointly with the American Anthropological Association afterwards. This award was named after anthropologi ...

, for his book ''At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil'', an innovative study of street children in Northeastern Brazil.2002 Margaret Mead Award Recipient Tobias Hecht

Society for Applied Anthropology The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) is a worldwide organization for the Applied Social Sciences, established "to promote the integration of anthropological perspectives and methods in solving human problems throughout the world; to advocate ...

website. Retrieved January 22, 2010. In 2002–2003 he was the recipient of a

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation was established by Harry Guggenheim to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation writes: "He was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentati ...

research grant for his work on ''The violent life of Bruna Verissimo: An experimental ethnographic biography of a homeless Brazilian youth.'' His 2006 novel ''After Life: An Ethnographic Novel'' was based in part on that work."After Life: An Ethnographic Novel",

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 D ...

. Retrieved January 22, 2010, In 2005 Hecht placed second in the Hucha de Oro, Spain's most important literary competition for short works of fiction. He taught at

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became t ...

Selected bibliography

;Publications *''After Life: An Ethnographic Novel'',

, March 2006. *"La sexta columna" in ''Yardbird y otros cuentos : Concurso de Cuentos de las Cajas de Ahorros, XXXIII Convocatoria Hucha de Oro, octubre 2005'', April 2006. *''At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil'',

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, May 13, 1998. *''El cerdito pulcro'' also entitled ''The Remarkably Clean Life of a Little Pig'', a bilingual edition with illustrations by Cristina Perez Navarro, Ecologistas en Accion, (Madrid, Spain), October 2016. ;Edited books *(with Isabel Balseiro) ''South Africa: A Traveler's Literary Companion'', Whereabouts Press, August 11, 2009. *''Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society'',

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, September 7, 2002. ;Translations * Cristina Peri Rossi, ''The Museum of Useless Efforts'',

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, April 2001.

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External links

Tobias Hecht's website
1964 births Alumni of Clare Hall, Cambridge American anthropologists Living people {{US-anthropologist-stub Columbia College (New York) alumni People from Seattle Academics from Washington (state) American ethnographers Pomona College faculty