Wonik Son

Wonik Son is a PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine program and works on rehabilitation, disability, development, and environment. His research approaches the historical contestations of notions of disability, debility, and the built environment through global health projects of rehabilitation in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through the archival network of UN agencies in Europe, alongside other institutions in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden, his work explores the history of disability through the late twentieth century reimagination of space and value, and Europe's role in the co-option of rehabilitation within frameworks of entrepreneurship, productivity, and self-help. Wonik holds an A.B. in History from Harvard College and an MPhil in World History from Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Department: History of Science and Medicine