Dr. Sharon Leon - Digitorium 2019 - Plenary Session II
Channel: University of Alabama Libraries
Date: 2019-10-12

Dr. Sharon Leon is an associate professor in History at Michigan State University. Leon has a two-pronged interest research focus. She is working on a digital project looking at the communities and experiences of people enslaved and sold by the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sharon is also prolific in the field of Digital Public History. She is the Director of the Omeka web publishing platform family. She has also served leadership roles in many projects from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University as the Director of Public Projects. Some of those projects include Histories of the National Mall, September 11 Digital Archive, Bracero History Archive, and Scripto.