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Kelsey Henry is a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity Studies in the Society of Fellows and a Lecturer at Princeton University. She is affiliated with the Department of African American Studies and the Council of the Humanities. Her interdisciplinary research bridges Black studies, histories of science and medicine, and disability studies, focusing on how the conflation of Blackness and developmental disorder has shaped antiblack racism in the United States.
- Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University
- M.A. in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University
- Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Henry’s work interrogates the role of medical and behavioral sciences in authorizing racialized developmental hierarchies. Her first book project, "Racing the Life Course: Black Histories of Child Development Science, 1830s - 1980s," traces the entanglement of race and developmental disability through historical records, parenting literature, and oral histories. She also co-hosts the Disability History Association Podcast, highlighting the social and political dimensions of disability.
Scientific Awards:
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
- Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Research Fellowship
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
At Princeton, Henry teaches courses examining race, gender, dis/ability, and age as mutable categories mediated by science and technology. Her upcoming work will appear in The Point, Gender & History, Disability Studies Quarterly, and the edited volume The Routledge History of Disability in America (2026).
