Doctoral Dissertation Research: A History of Pathological Anatomy and Racial Science in America

博士论文研究：病理解剖学和种族科学在美国的历史兰迪·斯帕克斯，博士的指导下。学生克里斯托弗·D·威洛比将承担一个科学史项目，该项目将探索病理解剖学和多基因起源（每个种族都是不同物种的理论）的大致同时兴起。通过档案研究的co-PI将分析教授如何讨论身体的新兴理论，特别是在解剖学讲座，以及这些战前的理论家如何帮助设定了在后达尔文世界出现的种族的医学和科学理论的基调，特别是在优生学和社会达尔文主义。 除了论文，共同PI计划在一本书中发表他的研究结果，并发表文章，包括针对非专业读者的文章，这些文章将把历史工作与种族科学理论如何影响美国社会的最近例子联系起来。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: A History of Pathological Anatomy and Racial Science in America Under the direction of Randy Sparks, Ph.D. student, Christopher D Willoughby, will undertake a history of science project that will explore the roughly simultaneous rise of pathological anatomy and polygenesis (the theory that each race was a different species). Through archival research the co-PI will analyze how professors discussed emerging theories of the body, particularly in anatomical lectures, and how these antebellum theorists helped set the tone for the medical and scientific theories of race that emerged in the post-Darwin world, particularly in eugenics and social Darwinism. In addition to a dissertation, the co-PI plans to publish his results in a book, and articles including ones directed to non-specialist readers which would link the historical work to more recent examples of how scientific theories of race have affected American society.