Elizabeth D. Leonard is an American historian and the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Her areas of specialty include American women and the Civil War era.
[2] Now John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History, Emerita,[3] Leonard taught at Colby College after she earned her PhD, serving as an assistant, then associate professor from 1992 to 2003.
[5] Leonard's research interests focus on the Civil War through the lens of gender (weighing in on controversial figures such as Loreta Janeta Velázquez[6]) as well as race.
[7] Between 2000 and 2003, Leonard was the Harriet S. and George C. Wiswell Jr. Research Fellow at Colby College in American History.