Dr Kathryn Henne named 2018 Critical Criminologist of the Year

RegNet Associate Professor Kate Henne has been named the 2018 Critical Criminologist of the Year by the American Society of Criminology.

The 2018 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award honours an early-to-mid-career scholar whose distinguished accomplishments symbolise the spirit of critical criminology and social justice in the form of scholarship, teaching, and/or service in recent years.

Award date: 15 November at the Awards Ceremony of the Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice during the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Dr Henne is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher who is interested in how biogovernance—that is, the governance of populations and individual humans through science and technology—informs everyday life.

In addition to the ARC DECRA fellowship she holds at RegNet, she is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Biogovernance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo.

To learn more about Dr Henne’s research and engagements, visit her website.