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.
Working Paper: Yale’s laboratory for early 20th-century eugenic knowledge
Working Paper: The Concealing of Eugenics: Yale’s Institute of Human Relations (1929-1963)
Working Paper: Arnold Gesell and The Eugenic Origins of Child Development at Yale
Working Paper: The Myth of Ivy League Exceptionalism and its Roots in Eugenics
Virtual Anti-Eugenics Tour of New Haven
Working Paper: Dean Winternitz: Yale Medical School’s Passionate Eugenicist
Yale Daily News Coverage of the University's Ties to Eugenics
Working Paper: The Warp and the Weft of the Wealth at Yale
Working Paper: The American Eugenics Society's Devastating Legacy of Racialized Reproductive Control
Working Paper: The Eugenic Origins of Yale's Institute of Psychology, 1921-1929
Working Paper: Yale, Eugenics, and the Early American Environmental Movement
Working Paper: "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
Working Paper: Eugenics and the Sciences Guide
