Thomas Anderson
Poisons; Climatology and the Environment; Caribbean medical exchanges and conflicts; Enlightenment Atlantic; Experimentation; Ethnobotany; Material history & critical archival studies
Thomas C. Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in the joint program in History of Science and Medicine (HSHM) and Early Modern Studies at Yale University who examines the history of poisons, the environment, and Marronage in the Francophone Caribbean. His research examines how French colonists deployed scientific, medical, and engineering technologies to wage ecological warfare against Maroon territories in the Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1830. Thomas is a 2025 HSS Chateaubriand Fellow, and he has previously written on various topics including the poisonous manchineel tree in Guadeloupe, the production of racially-inflected ecological knowledge, and non-professionalized scientific travel in the colonial Caribbean.