Biography
Daniel Martinez HoSang is a professor of American Studies and holds secondary appointments in the Department of Political Science and in the Yale School of Medicine Section of the History of Medicine. He also serves on the Education Studies Advisory Committee, is a faculty affiliate with the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and a ’23-24 faculty fellow at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.
He is an interdisciplinary scholar of racial formation and racism in politics, culture, and the law. In 2024, he was recognized as a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. He serves as a Race and Democracy Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
HoSang’s current research projects include a volume of essays co-edited with Joe Lowndes titled, The Politics of the Multiracial Right. A related series of recent public facing essays can be found in The Public Eye, The Guardian, The Conversation and The American Prospect.
HoSang also leads a collaborative investigation into the history and afterlives of Eugenics research at Yale documented through the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale. His recent co-authored essay in Time explores the intertwined histories of eugenics and restrictions on reproductive autonomy. He is working on a book length project on histories of racism and eugenics and their impact on contemporary academic disciplines, including life sciences and medical education.
His most recent book is A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone (University of California Press, 2021). He is co-author with Joseph Lowndes of Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and the author of Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press, 2010) which was awarded the 2011 James A Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
He is the co-editor of three volumes: Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines (with Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Luke Harris and George Lipsitz) University of California Press, 2019; Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice (co-edited with Ramon Gutiérrez and Natalia Molina), University of California Press, 2019; and Racial Formation in the 21st Century (with Oneka LaBennett and Laura Pulido) University of California Press, 2012).
HoSang has coordinated a summer community organizing training program for undergraduate students in conjunction with the Alliance for a Just Society and serves as the academic research partner for the Strengthening Organizing Project. He has a long record of collaboration with community-based organizations and labor unions as a trainer, board member, and advisor.
Through the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, he has taught seminars for K-12 public school teachers on anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy and works with teachers and youth organizing groups in Connecticut on teaching about racism and racial justice in the K-12 curriculum through the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective.
Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2017, HoSang was an associate professor (and department head) of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at the University of Oregon. He received his B.A. in history from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in American studies and ethnicity from the University of Southern California.
HoSang serves as faculty advisor to Racial Capitalism and Carceral State Working Group. He has served on dissertation and exam committees for students in the fields of political science, sociology, English, comparative literature, anthropology, American studies, and history. His recent undergraduate courses include “Afro-Asian Formations of Race,” “Eugenics and its Afterlives,” and “Race, Politics, and the Law” as well graduate seminars “Critical Ethnic Studies,” “Relational and Intersectional Formations of Race” and “Countering Colorblindness Across the Academic Disciplines.”