AECY News
Student Articles, Events, and AECY Blog
Articles
GUO & GARCIA: 100 years later: eugenics at Yale
JOSE GARCIA & DORA GUO OCT 01, 2021
A guest column feature in the YDN by student researchers uncovering Yale’s connection to the American Eugenics Society through figures like Irving Fisher, Ellsworth Huntington, and Robert Yerkes.
Not the full story: Seeking eugenics history in Yale’s science curriculum
TIGERLILY HOPSON APR 29, 2022
A reporter covers the efforts of students and faculty grappling with the afterlife of eugenics in the science curriculum.
Yale undergrads explore University’s ties to eugenics
KAASHIF AHMED SEP 24, 2021
A reporter covers the involvement of three Yale students at The Legacies of Eugenics in New England Conference: Part 1, hosted by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, about Yale’s relationship with eugenics.
Blog
AECY Presentations at and around Yale
Mayah*, a senior at Yale, reflects on her and the AECY’s experience presenting at various events over the past semester.
Addressing Eugenics in the Biology Curriculum at Yale
Tenzin*, a junior at Yale, writes about progress towards an anti-eugenic curriculum intervention for the Yale Undergraduate Biology curriculum.
Only the Best Eggs
Mayah*, a senior at Yale, writes about the solicitation of egg and embryo donations from Ivy League students, an afterlife of eugenics.
Habitual Criminal Laws and Eugenics: Meeting with Daniel Loehr, author of amicus brief sent to the CO Supreme Court
Tara*, a senior at Yale, writes about the amicus brief written by Daniel Loehr for the Colorado Supreme Court, which is about eugenics and habitual criminal laws.
Presenting at the CT Ethnic Studies Symposium
Emma*, a Senior at Yale, writes about her and other students’ experience presenting at the Connecticut Ethnic Studies Symposium, hosted at the University of Connecticut.
Is Tinder Eugenic? A Yale Student’s Perspective
Mayah*, a junior at Yale, writes about how current dating practices, often tied up with conceptions of elitism, connect back to histories of eugenic matchmaking.
Students Work to Make Archives of Eugenics More Accessible
Tara*, a junior at Yale, writes about a project in the Fall ‘23 Eugenics and Its Afterlives course attempting to make the eugenics archives at Yale more accessible.
AECY’s New Haven Walking Tour with the History of Psychiatry Program at Yale School of Medicine
Tara*, a junior at Yale, recaps the downtown walking tour of New Haven, hosted in collaboration by the AECY and the History of Psychiatry Program at the Yale School of Medicine for second-year Psychiatry residents.
Stacy Cordova Diaz’s Visit to the Yale with the AECY
Tara*, a junior at Yale, recaps and reflects on the week spent with Ms. Stacy Cordova Diaz, who was hosted by the AECY in New Haven this November.
Reflecting on the First Institutional Recognition of the American Eugenics Movement at Yale
Tenzin*, a sophomore at Yale, reflects on the work being done at the Peabody Museum’s Eugenics and Intelligence exhibit, which will be the first institutional acknowledgement of Yale’s history of eugenics.
Events
January 2023 - K-12 Working Group
In January 2023, the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective announced a new working group opportunity for Connecticut K-12 educators, “Teaching about the Eugenics Movement in Connecticut: Racism & Resistance.”
Oct 30, 2021 - History of Medicine and Sciences at Yale
Professor HoSang and students present on “Eugenics and its Afterlives at Yale University” at the Gilder Lehman Center Conference: Yale & Slavery in Historical Perspective [starting at 17:12]
It also happened here: Eugenics and its Afterlives at Yale
May 1, 2023
HQ 276 - Zoom link
3:30-5:00pm EST
“Eugenics and its Afterlives” will be a hybrid student and faculty panel, focusing on presenting out interdisciplinary work on eugenic histories, legacies, and continuities at Yale and inviting discussion and feedback.