nicholas.bonneau@gmail.com

Nicholas E. Bonneau is a historian of science, religion, and the environment, with a particular interest in the demographic and cultural legacies of epidemics. He earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of Notre Dame and is a lecturer in the history of science, medicine, and disease at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Bonneau is also the creator of the Death Records of the Early America Database (the DREAD), linking hundreds of thousands of vital records from across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He has received fellowships from a wide range 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 Carpenter Fellow in Early American Religious Studies at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and remains a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania and consulting scholar at the Mutter Research Institute of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.