Dr. Daniel Hosang

Biography

Daniel Martinez HoSang is a Professor of American Studies at Yale University, with secondary appointments in the Department of Political Science and in the Yale School of Medicine, Section of the History of Medicine. He serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee and is an interdisciplinary scholar focused on racial formation, racism, and politics. His current research includes co-editing a volume on the multiracial right and investigating the historical afterlives of eugenics. HoSang's recent work includes the book "Wider Type of Freedom: Struggles for Racial Justice to Liberate Everyone" (University of California Press, 2021) and co-authoring "Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity" (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). He has received the James Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Prior to joining Yale in 2017, HoSang was an Associate Professor and Department Head of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at the University of Oregon. He holds a BA in History from Wesleyan University and a PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. HoSang teaches courses on race, law, and politics at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

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