Lucy Leonard
Lucy Leonard is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Georgetown University.
Her research centers on the intersection of climate history and missionary work in the eighteenth-century Atlantic ocean world. She is also interested in curriculum design and the integration of archival theory and climate history into the classroom.
Born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, Lucy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with a B.A. in History, and a minor in Greek and Roman Studies. Her paper, “The Men of Mrs Beeton: Finding Middle-Class Gender Dynamics Between Puddings and Protocol,” was awarded the 2020 Undergraduate Essay Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies. Prior to joining Georgetown’s History Department in 2022, she was a Visiting Student at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University, where she studied British and European History. Since joining Georgetown's History Department, she has completed external courses in paleoclimatology (hosted by the Climate Change and History Research Initiative at Princeton University) and German Kurrent Script (hosted by the Moravian archives at Bethlehem).