Catherine Evans

Assistant Professor
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Cross-Appointments

Department of History

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

  • Sociolegal Studies
  • History of Criminal Justice
  • Guilt
  • History of criminal law in the British empire
  • Criminal responsibility
  • Forensics and the mind

Biography

Professor Evans’ research focuses on the history of criminal law in the British empire. She is particularly interested in questions of criminal responsibility, forensics and the mind.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate
  • CRI215H1F Introduction to Sociolegal Studies
  • CRI392H1S Topics in Criminology – History of Criminal Justice in the Common Law World
Graduate
  • CRIXXXXHS Guilt, Responsibility and Forensics

Publications

  • “Heart of Ice: Indigenous Defendants and Colonial Law in the Canadian North-West,” Law and History Review (Forthcoming 2018).
  • “At Her Majesty’s Pleasure: Criminal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain”, History Compass 14 (October 2016): 470-79.

Education

BA (History), McGill University
BA (Jurisprudence), University College, University of Oxford
PhD (History), Princeton University