Tobias Hecht

Tobias Hecht (born 18 February 1964 in Seattle, Washington) is an American anthropologist, ethnographer, and translator, currently living in Claremont, California.

He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1995 from the University of Cambridge, and was the winner of the 2002 Margaret Mead Award, for his book At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, an innovative study of street children in Northeastern Brazil.

In 2005 he placed second in the Hucha de Oro, Spain's most important literary competition for short works of fiction.

Dr. Hecht and his wife Isabel Balseiro, Professor at Harvey Mudd College, have a son Tiago Balseiro Hecht.

Selected bibliography

• After Life: An Ethnographic Novel, Duke University Press, March 2006. ISBN 0822337886
• "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.
• Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society (ed.), University of Wisconsin Press, September 7, 2002. ISBN 0299180344
• The Museum of Useless Efforts, Cristina Peri Rossi (Author), Tobias Hecht (Translator), University of Nebraska Press, April 2001. ISBN 080328764X
• At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, Cambridge University Press, May 13 1998. ISBN 0521598699