Constantin David Kilcher
Switzerland
PhD in History, Clare College
PhD thesis: The Emergence of Eugenics as Science in Zurich, c. 1890
This PhD thesis examines a previously unexplored episode in Zurich around 1890, when several elements
converged that allowed for a set of social intuitions around the breeding of humans to cross the threshold into
scientific respectability. This constituted a first, formative episode of early German eugenics, years before the terms
‘eugenics’ or ‘race hygiene’ were in use.
After the PhD
I am currently a Consultant at Bain & Company.
I still give talks on the PhD project and am also in the process of publishing it.