Andrew Lieman is a third year student at Grinnell College double-majoring in Psychology and Economics. The American eugenics movement that was at its height in the early 1900s is largely seen as having lost most of its influence after WWII due to its association with Nazis and the Holocaust. However, such large movements do not… Read more The Adapting Eugenics Movement After WWII
Taylor Burton [2018] is a sociology major, writing mentor, and student research assistant at Grinnell College. Through her studies, Burton primarily focuses on racial and class oppression within the context of neoliberalism and capitalism. Outside of her academics, she participates in social justice activism through various student organizations at Grinnell College. An often forgotten history… Read more The Color of Forced and Coerced Sterilizations
Thomas Aldrich is a third year history and religious studies double major at Grinnell College. In his free time he enjoys singing, riding his bike around campus and out of town, and advocating for stronger government oversight. For those of us who have lived our entire lives with a safe, secure water supply, the idea… Read more A Crisis We Would Rather Avoid: Water Quality and Public Health in the United States
Summer White is a senior political science major with a concentration in policy studies at Grinnell College. Interested in pursuing public health and social justice oriented policy, Summer will begin her career this July in Washington, DC as a federal strategy and operations business analyst. Health is a universal human experience. Physical, social, emotional, mental,… Read more History of Welfare in United States: Equality for Some
Monica Knaack is a second-year Biology major at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. Outside of her academics, she enjoys playing volleyball, hiking, and snuggling with her black lab puppy, Ella. In an age when a rapidly growing human population is no longer a sign of prosperity, but rather represents a growing strain on limited resources,… Read more Survival of the Fittest (Or the Richest)
Johanna Foster is a senior sociology major at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Her post-graduation plans involve working in education and the consumption of copious amounts of coffee. Modern pop culture loves to pathologize women’s behavior. Does this seem like a questionable assertion? A quick dive into the murky waters of the popular website, urbandictionary.com,… Read more Autonomous and Insane: The Gendered, Classed, and Raced Pathologization of Women’s Minds
Meredith Carroll is a rising senior at Grinnell College, where she studies history, plays flute, and braves the Iowa climate as a campus tour guide. Her interests include the history of the popularization of science and its intersections with the history of the book. She can regularly be found ensconced in Grinnell’s Burling Library, with… Read more “Frailty, Danger, and Isolation”: Turn-of-the Century America and the Pathologization of Old Age
