Waldo Emerson Award for 2004 from the Phi Beta Kappa Society "for scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity." In 2007 Hecht published The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong in which she attempts to examine happiness through historical perspective. Hecht maintains that our current perception of happiness is affected by culture, and that future generations may well mock our view of happiness as we make fun of earlier generations. In 2013 Hecht published Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It. It is a study of intellectual and cultural history, in which she channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for persuasive arguments against it; arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. Bibliography History and philosophy 2003 The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936 — 2003 Doubt, A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson — 2007 The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today — 2013 Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It — Selected journal articles This article examines Georges Vacher de Lapouge's contribution to the ideology in the Nazi "Final Solution". "Lapouge's contribution to racism was a quantitative, well-written race theory that was replete with the language and tools of science. It was particularly appealing because it described a collection of human groups which sounded too scientific and clinical to be political." Poetry 2001 The Next Ancient World — 2005 Funny — 2013 Who Said (Copper Canyon Press) - Collections Best American Poetry 2005, Paul Muldoon and David Lehman, eds. (Scribner's, 2005). Good Poems for Hard Times, Garrison Keillor, ed. (Viking/Penguin, 2005). 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. (Scribner's, 1999). Translations Portuguese Dúvida: uma História (Ediouro, 2005) O Mito de Felicidade (Larousse, 2011) Italian Dubbio: una storia (Ariele, 2010) Korean "의심의 역사" (Imago, 2011) "행복이란 무엇인가" (Gongjon, 2012) Japanese 自殺の思想史―抗って生きるために (みすず書房, 2022) Spanish La futura antigüedad (Cielo Eléctrico, 2021) Arabic (2014, تاريخ الشك" (المركز القومي للترجمة. القاهرة" References External links Jennifer Michael Hecht official website Video lecture by