From Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Racist Appropriations

This talk looks at some of the ways that research on ancient DNA has encouraged the treatment of race as both essential and biological. The danger of this trend is underlined by placing such research – as well as its appropriations by the far right – within the context of a broader resurgence of race science over the past ten years. Organized by the project at the Neubauer Collegium.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Denise Eileen McCoskey is Professor of Classics and affiliate in Black World Studies at Miami University (Ohio). She is the author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy and is currently working on a project examining the influence of eugenics on early 20th-century American classical scholarship.

Reception to follow.

Host or Publisher Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society | University of Chicago