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Dr Katherine Roscoe is a historical criminologist at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Her research focuses on global mobilities, unfree labor, and racial inequalities in 19th-century British imperial contexts. She leads the Leverhulme Trust-funded project examining convict labor in British dockyards, linking historical carceral systems to modern global supply chains. A former ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, she holds awards including the Hakluyt Society Grant and National Archives of Australia Scholarship. Her work includes creating the Cockatoo Island Convicts database to document Indigenous and marginalized convict populations. Roscoe teaches modules on crime control and contributes to initiatives like the Howard League for Penal Reform ECAN Bulletin. She engages in decolonizing digital archives and critiques colonial penal legacies.
- PhD in History (University of Leicester, 2017)
- Caird-Sackler Fellow (National Maritime Museum, 2019)
- Pearsall Fellow (Institute of Historical Research, 2017-18)
Research interests span colonial penal systems, maritime infrastructure, and the intersection of race, labor, and punishment. Her work bridges historical analysis with modern implications via digital methods.
- Recent focus: Digital crime histories & public pedagogy
- Analysis of postcolonial impacts on Aboriginal justice systems
Grants include a 2-year ESRC fellowship (2018-2019) for the Cockatoo Island project. Awards highlight her contributions to both historical scholarship and penal policy critique.
