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Daniel HoSang

Professor of American Studies
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Professor of American Studies

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Daniel Martinez HoSang is 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.

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