Susan Hautaniemi Leonard
Affiliated Programs:
Michigan Historical Demography Workshop
Funded Research:
Demographic Analysis of Longitudinal Historical Data (NICHD)
Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement (NICHD)
Grammars of Death: 19th-Century Literal Causes of Death (NICHD)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Assistant Research Scientist, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
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; household dynamics and farming practices in grasslands settlement; and population dynamics in the U.S. Great Plains.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi. 2007. "Communities of kinship: Antebellum families and the settlement of the cotton frontier." Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37(3): 469-470. Worldcat.
Sylvester, Kenneth M., Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, and Myron Gutmann. 2006. "Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household/Agricultural Systems." History and Computing, 14(1&2): 31-60.
Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, and Myron Gutmann. 2006. "'The farm should provide our retirement:' Land-use plans in the aging farm population of the U.S. Great Plains." Great Plains Research, 16: 181-193. (Winner of the Leslie Hewes Award)
Beemer, Jeffrey K., Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, and Douglas L. Anderson. 2005. "Sewers in the city: a case study of individual-level mortality and public health initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the turn of the century." Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, 28(1): 42-72. DOI:10.1093/jhmas/jri002. Licensed Access.
Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, and Myron Gutmann. 2005. "Isolated Elderly in the U.S. Great Plains: The Roles of Environment and Demography in Creating a Vulnerable Population." Annales de Demographie Historique, 2: 81-108.
Anderton, D.L., and Susan Hautaniemi Leonard. 2004. "Grammars of Death - an Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death From the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory." Social Science History, 28(1): 111-143. DOI:10.1215/01455532-28-1-111 . Licensed Access.
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