Susan Leonard
Associate Research Scientist Emerita, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Leonard’s work focuses on the relationship between human populations and their environments. Her research interests include historical epidemiology and mortality in emergent industrial cities of the Northeast United States; wealth inequality in 19th century New England; household dynamic and farming practices in grasslands settlement; and aging, migration, isolation and settlement dynamics in the US Great Plains.
- Martha Bailey, Susan Leonard, Joseph Price, Evan Roberts, Logan Spector, Mengying Zhang. 2023. Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project. Explorations in Economic History 87:101474.
- Susan Leonard, Joseph Trent Alexander, Maggie Levenstein, Kum, Hye-Chung , Akgün, Özgür , Antonie, Luiza , O'Hara, Amy . 2018. Establishing an International Data Linkage Repository Workgroup Toward a Benchmarking Repository. International Journal of Population Data Science 3(4):..
- Susan Leonard, Abay Israel, Maggie Levenstein, Alexander, Trent . 2018. Building a repository for record linkage. International Journal of Population Data Science 3(5):..
- Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, Robinson, C , Anderton, D . 2017. Immigration, Occupation, and Inequality in Emergent Nineteenth-Century New England Cities. Social Science History 41(4):645-671.
- Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, Rhode, Paul W, Sylvester, Kenneth Michael, Gutmann, Myron P., Brown, Daniel G., Cunningham, Angela R, Dykes, James , Little, Jani , Mikecz, Jeremy , Spielman, Seth . 2016. Migration in the 1930s: Beyond the Dust Bowl. Social Science History 40(4):707-740.
- Susan Leonard. 2016. Grammars of Death: An Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory. Grammars of Death: An Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory 28(1):111-143.
- Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, Robinson, C , Swedlund, A C, Anderton, D L. 2015. The effects of wealth, occupation, and immigration on epidemic mortality from selected infectious diseases and epidemics in Holyoke township, Massachusetts, 1850-1912. Demographic Research 33:1035-1046.
- Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, Briggs, C , Marfany, J , Nagata, M L. 2015. Thirty years of Continuity and Change. Continuity and Change 30(1):1-1.
- Sylvester, Kenneth Michael, Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi. 2015. Revisiting wealth on the American frontier: the distribution of land in Kansas, 1875-1940. Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources :165-186.
- Ken Sylvester, Brown, Daniel G., Susan Leonard, Merchant, Emily , Hutchins, Meghan . 2015. Exploring agent-level calculations of risk and returns in relation to observed land-use changes in the US Great Plains, 1870-1940. Regional Environmental Change 15(2):301-315. PMCID: PMC4340090.