Edna
Bonhomme
Speaker
Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science and author. Edna Bonhomme earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Princeton University, a Master of Public Health from Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree in biology from Reed College. Edna's doctoral dissertation, “Plague Bodies and Spaces,” examined trade, plague, and imperialism in North African port cities. Edna's master's thesis explored sexuality, sex work and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. Edna works with sound, text and archives and explores contagion, epidemics and toxicity by asking: What makes people sick? Bonhomme tells how people perceive modern plagues and how they try to escape them through critical storytelling.
