Dr. Nicholas Bonneau
Other · Non-Tenure Track
Department of History Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health
About
Nicholas E. Bonneau is a historian of science and medicine. His research uses quantitative methods to explore the cultural and demographic legacies of epidemics, 1500-1850. A variety of institutions have provided financial support for his work, including the National Science Foundation and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania where he was the 2016-17 Carpenter Fellow. His dissertation, “Unspeakable Loss: New England’s Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735-1775," won the John Highbarger Memorial Dissertation Prize and was nominated for the SAH Allan Nevins Prize. He was a team leader on the Mütter Museum exhibit "Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1919–19 in Philadelphia" and is the principal historian of the Arch Street Project.Education
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Ph D, History
— University of Notre Dame (2020) Unspeakable Loss: North America’s Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic, 1735 – 1775
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MA, History
— California State University, Northridge (2011) Rumors of Pain: Fear, Perception, and Control During the Cholera Epidemics of Early Nineteenth Century America
- BA, Philosophy (Phil of Science, Phil of Art) — Manhattanville College (2009)