The AECY Lab
Daniel Martinez HoSang
Daniel Martinez HoSang is a Professor of American Studies and holds secondary appointments in the Department of Political Science and in the Yale School of Medicine Section of the History of Medicine. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of racial formation and racism in politics, culture, and the law. Is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books, including A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone (University of California Press, 2021). Within the history of science and medicine, his scholarship and teaching examine the role of elite universities, including Yale, in advancing the eugenics movement in the US, and the role of such critical histories in educating scientists and clinicians today. He is the faculty PI for the Eugenics and Its Afterlives Lab and an Advisory Committee member for the Critical Histories Lab at Yale School of Medicine. He has led workshops and presentations on the history of eugenics and its afterlives at Yale for more than two dozen units on campus in the life sciences, humanities, and the Yale School of Medicine. He teaches the course “Eugenics and its Afterlives” at Yale College as well as to incarcerated students through the Yale Prison Education Initiative and K-12 teachers in New Haven Public Schools through the Yale New Haven Teachers Initiative. He also leads sessions for K-12 educators on the histories of eugenics, racism, and the university, including workshops utilizing special collections in Yale archives.
Tenzin Dhondup
Tenzin is a junior at Yale College studying both the History of Medicine and Ethnicity, Race & Migration. At the Collective, he is focused on responding to how science has been employed to justify social inequality through curriculum reform at Yale. He has worked to make anti-eugenic changes to the introductory biology curriculum at Yale, and has presented this work to biology professors, fellow students, and at a joint conference between University College London and Yale University. At Yale New Haven Health Systems, he is working on removing race-based healthcare tools and algorithms that normalize racial differences and health inequities.
Mayah Monthrope
Mayah (she/her) is a senior at Yale College majoring in the History of Science and Medicine with a focus on health equity and reproductive justice. She is a member of the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale where she helps facilitate dialogue about the legacies of the Eugenics Movement. She has presented with the AECY about the history of eugenics at several conferences, including the RITM Race, Social Justice, and Democracy Plenary and a joint conference with students at University College London. Furthermore, she is currently working on her senior essay which will explore public health law and interrogate the legal legitimization of involuntary sterilizations across the country.
Tara Bhat
Tara (she/her) is a senior at Yale College studying Political Science. She is a member of the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale, where she has focused on democratization and redescription of archives related to eugenicists from the American Eugenics Movement. She has presented with the AECY about the history of eugenics at several conferences, including the New England Public Humanities Conference, the RITM Race, Social Justice, and Democracy Plenary, and a joint conference with students at University College London. She has also helped lead anti-eugenic campus tours and helped researchers in the archives. She is currently working on her senior essay, which explores the way remnants from the American Eugenics Movement live on in the modern criminal legal system.
Tsion Agaro
Tsion is a junior at Yale College majoring in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, with a certificate in Spanish. Her research interests center on the relationship between the Eugenics movement and the use of statistics and AI to justify surveillance and policing practices. She is particularly focused on integrating anti-eugenics perspectives into statistics education and has been researching the racialized and eugenic way people are treated by police throughout the world.
Modupe Karimi
Modupe Karimi is a junior in Yale College studying History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. This is her second year working with Professor HoSang and the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale, where she is focusing on making changes to the introductory biology curriculum here at Yale. She has presented this work to biology professors, fellow students, and at a joint conference between University College London and Yale University.
Hanifah Ouro-Sama
Hanifah is a junior at Yale College studying Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Global Health Studies. This is her second year working with Professor HoSang and her first year with the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale. Her work focuses on reimagining and implementing an anti-eugenic introductory biology curriculum at Yale, while also investigating the institution's historical ties to the American eugenics movement. Through this work, she aims to help create a new generation of scientists committed to ethical research practices.