Original Scholarship
A collection of projects students have produced on eugenics at Yale and beyond, including curricular interventions, class papers, virtual tours, and senior theses.
Within the walls and outside the gates: Yale’s laboratory for early 20th-century eugenic knowledge
The Concealing of Eugenics: Yale’s Institute of Human Relations (1929-1963)
“How Science Studies the Child”: Arnold Gesell and The Eugenic Origins of Child Development at Yale
The Myth of Ivy League Exceptionalism and its Roots in Eugenics
Virtual Anti-Eugenics Tour of New Haven
Dean Winternitz: Yale Medical School’s Passionate Eugenicist
Yale Daily News Coverage of the University's Ties to Eugenics
The Warp and the Weft of the Wealth at Yale
The American Eugenics Society's Devastating Legacy of Racialized Reproductive Control
The Eugenic Origins of Yale's Institute of Psychology, 1921-1929
Regimes of Truth and Light: Yale, Eugenics, and the Early American Environmental Movement
"Eugenically Yours”: A History of the American Eugenics Society
Downtown Tour: A Critical History of Yale and New Haven
Creative Project: Hand-Signed/Hand-Pierced
Working Paper: Eugenics & Criminal Defense Mitigation Work
Yale and Eugenics: A Dive into the Archives
Working Paper: Approaching Statistics from a Critical, Anti-Eugenics Lens
