Msu Honors College

Sharon Leon is an associate professor in the Department of History at Michigan State University. Sharon is an historian of American religion with a concentration on U.S. Catholicism. She also specializes in digital methods with a focus on public history. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is analyzing experiences of the cohort of people enslaved and sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits in the 18th and 19th Sharon’s first book was, “An Image of God: the Catholic Struggle with Eugenics.” She earned her doctorate from the University of Minnesota.