PRINCETON, U.S.A. People have assigned the category “plague” to several pandemics for centuries and its witnesses have evoked mass death with dramaturgy and urg...
Edna Bonhomme is a doctoral candidate in History of Science at Princeton University and she specializes in late eighteenth-century North African plague and death. Her dissertation focuses on the bubonic plague outbreaks in Cairo and Tunis during the 1780s and 1790s. She graduated from Reed College with a B.A. in Biology and from Columbia University with an M.P.H. in Sociomedical Sciences.