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
The AECY’s Collaboration with the History of Psychiatry Program at Yale School of Medicine
Sanya*, a senior at Yale, writes about the collaboration between the AECY and Psychiatry residents at the Yale School of Medicine, marking the first time this history of eugenics has been integrated into the clinical education received by residents.
AECY Senior Essays
This entry, by Yale graduate Larissa Jimenez Gratereaux discusses the senior essays written by Dora Guo, Emme Magliato, and Sarah Laufenberg, as heard at the AECY May 1st Symposium.
An Introduction to Our Website
This entry, by Yale ‘23 Emme Magliato, formally introduces our website, and outlines, links to, and explains what can be found in each section of this website.
Anti-Eugenic K-12 Curricula
This entry, by Yale ‘26 Tenzin Dhondup, introduces the efforts made by K-12 students and educators across Connecticut to develop curricula informed by the American Eugenics Movement.
It Also Happened Here: AECY’s Student Symposium
This entry, by Yale ‘25 Tara Bhat discusses the May 1st Symposium hosted by the AECY, summarizing its events, scholarship, and reflections on anti-eugenic work.
Engaging with archives in London
This entry, by Yale ‘23 Dora Guo, recounts her time spent in the archives she had identified at the Wellcome Collection, National Archives, and University College of London (UCL).
Independent Research: The Eugenics of Statistics as a Social Ideology
This entry, by Yale ’23 Akio Tamara-Ho, frames our contemporary relationship to statistics, given the historical relationship of statistical analyses to eugenic figures, methods, and conclusions.
Attending an Anti-Eugenics Planning Meeting
This post, by Yale 23 Sarah Laufenberg and Yale 22.5 Alejandro Ortega, is about sharing out the work of the Collective at the 9/23/22 Anti-Eugenics Planning Meeting (affiliated with Small Beginnings).
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.