Edna Bonhomme

Edna Bonhomme

Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science and writer based in Berlin who earned a PhD in the history of science from Princeton University and a Master o... f Public Health from Columbia University. Working with sound, text, and archives, Bonhomme explores contagion, epidemics, and toxicity by asking: what makes people sick? Bonhomme narrates how people perceive modern plagues and how they try to escape from them through critical storytelling. Bonhomme’s first book Tending to our Wounds: A History of Haiti, Harlem, Berlin, and Me (Haymarket Press) explores the global history of restitution and reparations for the African diaspora will be published in 2022. Bonhomme is currently writing a second book, Captive Contagions (One Signal/Simon & Schuster) which examines the role that captivity has played during epidemics. Bonhomme has written for The Atlantic, The Baffler, Esquire, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Republic, and other publications.


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This holiday provides Americans with an opportunity to look at history from the point of view of the oppressed.

Opinion by Edna Bonhomme
Published On 19 Jun 2021

Alongside the pandemic and its impacts on the economy, the US is also facing a growing debt crisis.

Opinion by Edna Bonhomme
Published On 16 Feb 2021
Student debt protest