Wonik Son

Wonik Son works on questions of rehabilitation, disability, development, and environment. His current research approaches the historical contestations of notions of disability, debility, and the built environment through projects of land reclamation in South Korea in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and global health programs of rehabilitation. 

He is interested in exploring the biopolitical reimagination of disabled bodies and landscapes in visions of productivity, generativity, and an availability for violence, and the role of metaphor and visuality in grand projects of rehabilitation and development.

Wonik received his A.B. in History at Harvard University (2019) and an MPhil in World History at Trinity College, Cambridge on the Eben Fiske Studentship (2020). He co-curated an ongoing exhibition in the newly reopened Yale Peabody Museum titled “Fakes and Fictions? Unraveling Museum Narratives,” which explores his research interests in spatial work.