UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Susanna Hecht is Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Her research interests include the political economy of tropic al rain forest development; women in development; international environmental politics; and environmental history. Her books include The Scramble for the Amazon and the “Lost Paradise” of Euclides da Cunha and her prize-winning classic Fate of the Forest. She received a CSW Faculty Development grant in 2010 to support her research on Elizabeth Agassiz, Emilie Snethlage, and Odile Coudreau.