Christos Konstantopoulos
@christos-konstantopoulos
Christos is a historian and social scientist with a keen interest in the history of health and the influence of experts on political decision-making. He holds a BA in History from the University of Cambridge and an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where his MPhil thesis focused on how advocates of eugenics interacted with policy-makers in Edwardian Britain. Christos is currently a History PhD student at McGill University.
Education
MPhil Politics: Comparative Government — University of Oxford, 2021
BA History — University of Cambridge, 2019
Areas of Expertise
What Caused the New York City Draft Riots of 1863?
In July 1863, New York witnessed one of the most violent episodes of its history, when a protest against the draft turned into a bloody riot and an anti-Black pogrom.
Eugenics after the Nazis? The Evolution of a Problematic Discipline
Eugenics declined after Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945 but did not disappear. Instead, it changed priorities, focusing on “overpopulation,” and modern advances in gene editing might have brought it back.