My name is Isabelle Duval and I am an English major in my third year at Trinity College. Over the summer of 2021 I will be working with the Public Humanities Collaboration (PHC) research project revolving around Black Autism/Autistic Blackness, where we will be looking for cases of autism in the Black community before the disability became an official diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I specifically research and locate instances of autism and sterilization between the Post-Reconstruction era and the Civil Rights Era.
