My research on the history of eugenics, genetics, and reproductive health has been featured by a wide range of media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, KPFA, KGO, NPR, Reuters, BBC, Pacific Standard, New York Times, Texas Observer, Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, and the Detroit News.
Selected Recent Interviews and Media Contributions, since 2018
The Guardian, July 19, 2021
"Survivors of California's Forced Sterilizations: It's Like my Life wasn't worth anything"
New York Times, July 11, 2021
"'You Just Feel Like Nothing': California to Pay Sterilization Victims"
Washington Post, July 9, 2021
"California once forcibly sterilized people by the thousands. Now the victims may get reparations."
The Telegraph, June 30, 2021
"How the COVID-19 fertility myth lapped the globe"
Detroit News, March 4, 2021
"5 of 6 Whitmer kidnapping suspects shunned voting"
USA Today, March 16, 2021
"Thousands of Latinos were sterilized in the 20th century. Amid COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, they remember"
NPR, Special Series, March 15, 2021
"A Tale of Two Radicalizations"
Washington Post, January 16, 2021
"State Capitols tighten security and brace for the unknown as far-right group plots show strength"
WFYI, NPR, October 20, 2020
"Universities Rethink Building Names In The Wake Of Racial Justice Protests"
1A, WAMU, October 12, 2020
"Unpacking the Plot to Kidnap the Michigan Governor"
Axios, October 9, 2020
"The Future of American Terror"
Michigan Radio Stateside, October 8, 2020
"Alleged Whitmer Kidnapping Plot"
Barron's, September 30, 2020
"Trump Put a Spotlight on Proud Boys. What to Know about Them"
KCRW, September 30, 2020
"What the first Trump-Biden Debate means for the Proud Boys"
The Guardian, September 21, 2020
"Allegations of unwanted Ice hysterectomies recall grim time in US history"
CNN, September 16, 2020
"In a horrifying history of forced sterilizations, some fear the US is beginning a new chapter"
PRI The World, July 3, 2020
"Sterilization abuse of Uighurs in China"
Future Hindsight with Mila Atmos, July 2, 2020
Interview
America's Democrats podcast, October 18, 2029
"Dangers to Democracy"
Against the Grain, KPFA, September 3, 2019
"The Ideas of the Alt-Right"
The Majority Report with Sam Seder, August 26, 2019
Interview
Letters and Politics, KPFA, August 21, 2019
"The Alt-Right, the Ethnostate, and History"
In The Thick, podcast, August 16, 2019
"Card-Carrying White Nationalists"
NBC News, Think, August 15, 2019
"Steve King's rape comments reveal the misogyny at the heart of white supremacist ideology"
The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, August 12, 2019
"Tracing the Alt-Right's Ideas Back to the Source"
The Guardian, August 11, 2019
8chan, Trump, voter suppression: how white supremacy went mainstream in the US
Scheer Intelligence, podcast, KCRW, August 9, 2019
"Is Trump building a white ethnostate?"
Rising up with Sonali, KPFK, August 6, 2019
Interview
Newsweek, August 5, 2019
"It Has Come to This: White Nationalism Inciting Mass Murder in America"
The Progressive, August 1, 2019
"How the Alt-Right Plans to Take Over"
With Friends Like These, podcast, July 26, 2019
"There is an Alt-Lite that never goes out with Alexandra Minna Stern"
The Michelangelo Signorile Show, Sirius XM Progress, July 25, 2019
Guest Appearance
Central Time, WPR, July 23, 2019
"The Reach of the Alt-Right"
Literary Hub, July 17, 2019
"Navigating the Dark Web of American Racism"
Press Play, KCRW, July 17, 2019
“The Evolution of the Alt-Right in America"
Salon, July 14, 2019
"Alt-Right Women the 'White Baby Challenge'"
Newsweek, May 31, 2019
"Clarence Thomas' Linking of Abortion to Eugenics is as Inaccurate as it is Dangerous"
Washington Post, May 30, 2019
"Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics. Seven historians told The Post he's wrong"
Smithsonian.com, January 17, 2019
"‘Better Babies’ Contests Pushed for Much-Needed Infant Health but Also Played Into the Eugenics Movement"
KBIA Radio, October 25, 2018
“Japan, U.S. Face Legacies of Forced Sterilization,”
Inside Higher Education, September 20, 2018
"Pioneering Eugenics in 2018?"
