Nicholas BonneauAdjunct Assistant Professor, Public Health
Publications
Upcoming Book
- 鈥淭he Sainted Dead: A Biography of Philadelphia鈥檚 First Baptist Church Cemetery, 1722-1860 and 2016-2023 (Under contract with Rutgers University Press, Publication Winter 2024/25)
Articles
- 鈥淐holera,鈥 Co-authored with Christopher Hamlin, Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology, eds. Hugh Richard Slotten and Charles Rosenberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Monograph
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Unspeakable Loss: New England's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics (Under exclusive review, expected publication, December 2022)
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Ruffians, Rowdies, and the Sainted Dead: A Biography of the First Baptist Church Cemetery, 1722-1859 (In process with Arch Street Project and College of Physicians of Philadelphia, April 2023)
Conference Presentations
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鈥淎 repression of things past: reflections on the memory of pandemics in the wake of covid鈥, March 16, 2023
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鈥淭he Stones Cannot Shout: Church Records and the Identification of the Dead in Philadelphia鈥檚 Hidden First Baptist Cemetery, 1722 - 1859鈥, American Society of Church History, January 2023
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"Attention is Short, Art is Long: Teaching the History of Early America to Pre-Med Undergraduates" American Studies Association Meeting 2022, Early Americas Caucus, November 2022
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鈥淪pit Spreads Death: Finding Stories in Death Data鈥 American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2019
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鈥淗istorical Epidemiology and Big Data in the Arch Street Project鈥 (invited panel: 鈥淏ones and Burials in Philadelphia: Unmarked Cemeteries & the Arch St Project鈥) Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2018
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Co-founded panel, 鈥淎 Digital Revolution: Big Data Analysis of Eighteenth-Century America鈥 and presented 鈥淔ounding Fathers, Fallen Children: Uncovering the Consequences of North America鈥檚 Invisible Eighteenth Century Throat Distemper Epidemics.鈥 2017 Omohundro Institute Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2017
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Co-founded panel, 鈥淣ew Methods in the History of Medicine: Advancing Digital Humanities towards a Computational Framework," and presented, 鈥淭he Hidden Healers: Professional Networks and Intellectual Genealogies of Non-Academic Medical Practitioners in Early America,鈥 American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, April 2017
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鈥淯nspeakable Loss: North America鈥檚 Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemic of 1735 鈥 1765鈥 American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, April, 2016
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鈥淏lue Death on the Devil鈥檚 Backbone: Fear, Control, and Cholera in 1833 Adams County, Mississippi,鈥 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January, 2014
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鈥淢apping Mortality in the Atlantic World: Integrating Historical and Epidemiological Methodologies in Assessing Epidemics of the North American Atlantic World,鈥 Paper presented at the University of Michigan 鈥淢apping the Atlantic: Digital Humanities and Atlantic Studies鈥 Conference, University of Michigan, March, 2012.