ABOUT
Dr. Nicholas Bonneau
A historian of science, medicine, environment, and death, he has a particular interest in the demographic, emotional, and cultural legacies of epidemics in the modern United States. He earned his PhD in History at the University of Notre Dame and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for the past two years. He is now a visiting scholar at Franklin and Marshall College, where he has taught courses in the history of public health and the history of science.
Dr. Bonneau has received fellowships from a wide variety of institutions, including the National Science Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania, the American Antiquarian Society, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Congregational Library and Archives. He was the 2016–17 Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and consulting scholar at the Mütter Research Institute of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He is also a practitioner in the field of public history and his most recent project, “Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1919–19 in Philadelphia,” (October 2019 through 2024 at the Mütter Museum) earned his team the American Association for State and Local History’s 2020 Award for Excellence and Leadership in History (AASLH). Dr. Bonneau currently serves as Principal Historian of the Arch Street Project.
Affiliation Links:
Franklin and Marshall College https://www.fandm.edu/nicholas-bonneau
University of Maryland, Baltimore County https://history.umbc.edu/facultystaff/full-time/nicholas-bonneau/
Arch Street Project https://www.archstbones.org/people
University of Notre Dame https://reilly.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/globes-hps-student-nicholas-bonneau-wins-dissertation-prize/
University of Pennsylvania (Research Associate and Former Fellow) http://www.mceas.org/bonneau.html
Mutter Research Institute of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (http://muttermuseum.org/institute/)
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Former Fellow) https://www.chstm.org/profile/nicholas-bonneau
National Science Foundation, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship http://www.igert.org/profiles/4208.html
Awards:
MUSE Gold Award for Video, Film, Animation, & Live Media or Digital Performance, (Exhibit, “Spit Spreads Death,” College of Physicians of Philadelphia) American Alliance of Museums (2020)
Award of Excellence for Leadership in History (Exhibit, "Spit Spreads Death," College of Physicians of Philadelphia) American Association for State and Local History (2020)
Allan Nevins Prize for the Best-Written Doctoral Dissertation (Nomination) Society of American Historians (2020)
John Highbarger Memorial Dissertation Prize for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in History, University of Notre Dame History Department (2020)
Joint ACA/BA Fellowship, Congregational Library and Archive and Boston Athenæum (2018)
Carpenter Fellow in Early American Religious Studies and Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies (2016/2017)
Research Fellow, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (2016/2017)
Kate B. & Hall J. Peterson Fellow, American Antiquarian Society (2016)
Wood Institute Travel Grant, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia (2016)
Phillips Library Research Fellowship (2015)
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Fellow (2014-15)
GLOBES Real World Practicum Summer Research Award (2012)
National Science Foundation, IGERT GLOBES Fellowship (2011-2012)
First Prize in Humanities, Graduate Research Symposium, Notre Dame, IN (2012)
Zahm Research Travel Award, University of Notre Dame 2011 (2012)
Foundation Scholarship, Ophir Award for Academic Achievement (2009)
Bonneau, "The Professor at the Broad Street Pump" (2021) London, UK
“Dr. Bonneau has such a passion for what he teaches. All of his lectures are extremely fun and entertaining. He does a wonderful job of engaging students and drawing interest. I have taken 3 classes with Dr. Bonneau and I always recommend him to others. He helped shape my passion for history, and truly made me a better writer. I am very thankful to have had him and it was a great semester! ”