Unnatural Selection: Population Control and the Struggle to Remake Humanity

Monday, April 9, 2007
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
(Pacific)
Lane History Corner Building 200, Room 307
Speaker: 
  • Matthew Connelly

Matthew Connelly is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. Professor Connelly works in contemporary international history, with a particular focus on North-South relations. He received his BA from Columbia in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1997. He has written articles for The American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Revue française d'Histoire d'Outremer, as well as commentaries on foreign policy for The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest. His current project is a history of the international campaign to control population growth to be published by Harvard University Press.

This seminar is a special International History event cosponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Department of History.