Michael Rossi is the author, most recently, of Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture (2025). He is an associate professor of the history of science and medicine at the University of Chicago.
Michael Rossi
Articles
The Mysterious Eugenics of Aesthetic Taste
In the 11th essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Michael Rossi shows how American scientists and artists used their discovery of racial ‘types’ to buttress eugenicist notions of aesthetic taste.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Cats
The so-called “scientific method” may be a cage of sorts.
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