Dr Constantin Kilcher

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.