Filming Eugenics: Teaching the History of Eugenics Through Film

MELISSA OOTEN received her Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary in the fall of 2005. Her dissertation examined film censorship in the New South through an analysis of gender, race, and sexuality. She is currently the assistant director of the WILL (Women Involved in Living and Learning) program at the University of Richmond, and she teaches in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department there.

SARAH TREMBANIS received her Ph.D. From the College of William and Mary in 2006. Her dissertation, They Opened the Door Too Late: African Americans and Baseball, 1900– 1947, explored the significance of space, images, folklore, nicknames, and manhood for Negro League baseball. Presently, she is an assistant professor of history at Immaculata University in Pennsylvania.