Assistant Professor (Non-budgetary Cross-appointment)
Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies
Cross-Appointments
Criminology
Biography
Catherine 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
PhD, Princeton University