Leigh Whaley

Leigh Whaley has taught and researched European history for over thirty years. Retired from full-time teaching, she continues to teach three online courses, including Gender and Sexuality in Europe at Acadia University. She presented “The Voice of Age and Wisdom: Madame d’Arconville on Monarchy or Musings on the Characters of Charles I and Louis XVI” at the ninth International Women in French Conference at the Winthrop-King Institute of Florida State University in 2018. Her most recent publication is “Networks, Patronage and Women of Science during the Italian Enlightenment: Laura Bassi and Maria Agnesi,” in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 188–97. She is currently writing “Navigating Enlightenment Science: The Case of Marie Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d’Arconville and Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil and the Republic of Letters” for The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science: History, Cultures and Practice since 1660, edited by Claire Jones and James Bainbridge (forthcoming).