Nicole Bourbonnais
Dr. Nicole Bourbonnais (PhD, University of Pittsburgh 2013) is an Assistant Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests include reproductive politics, transnational activism, social history, gender history, and the history of public health. Her first book, Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) explored how family planning campaigns in Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda intersected with the politics of nationalism and working class women’s efforts to control their reproductive lives in the context of decolonization. She is currently working on two new projects. The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement will explore the networks and strategies that linked together birth control campaigns, family planning activists, and reproductive rights movements across the globe from the 1920s onwards. The New Woman, the Race Mother, and the Working Girl: Sex and Gender in the Early 20th Century Anglo-Atlantic World will examine the connections between activist movements and debates over sex, family, and gender roles in the UK, North America, and Anglophone Caribbean from the 1920s-1960s.
