Dr. Ayah Nuriddin

Biography

Ayah Nuriddin is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine specializing in the history of medicine. Her research interests include the histories of eugenics, racial science, scientific racism, reproduction, and human subjects research. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled 'Seed Soil: Black Eugenic Thought in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', which examines how African Americans navigated questions surrounding racial science and eugenics while advocating for racial justice during these centuries. Through her analysis, she explores the complex and paradoxical ways African Americans have perceived the utility of racial science and eugenics while challenging scientific racism and promoting racial equality. Her work sheds light on the ongoing legacies of racial science and its impact on health disparities among African Americans. Nuriddin's research has been supported by the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she was also an inaugural inductee of the Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Prior to joining Yale, she was a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in African American Studies at Princeton University. She holds a PhD in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University and an MA in History from the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as a Master's in Library Science and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and History from American University.

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