Sharon M. Leon is Director of Public Projects and Research Assistant Professor. Her research interests include the history of religion in the U.S., especially Roman Catholicism, history of science and twentieth century cultural history. She received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and her doctorate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2004. Her book manuscript on US Catholics and the Eugenics Movement is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. She directs the Center's work on Historical Thinking Matters (historicalthinkingmatters.org) and The Object of History (objectofhistory.org) and is Co-Director of the National History Education Clearinghouse (teachinghistory.org). Finally, she teaches two junior seminars in American Studies at Georgetown University each year.