Dr. Daniel Hosang

Biography

Daniel Martinez HoSang is a Professor of American Studies at Yale School of Medicine and holds secondary appointments in the Department of Political Science and in the Section of the History of Medicine. He is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on racial formation, racism, politics, culture, and law. HoSang is the author and co-author of six books, including "Wider Type Freedom: Struggles for Racial Justice to Liberate Everyone" (University of California Press, 2021). His research examines the role of elite universities, such as Yale, in advancing the eugenics movement while providing critical histories to educate scientists and clinicians. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the Critical Histories Lab at Yale School of Medicine and has led workshops and presentations on the history of eugenics and its afterlives across more than a dozen units in life sciences and humanities at Yale. Additionally, he teaches the course "Eugenics Afterlives" at Yale College, targeting 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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