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Lynsey Black is an Associate Professor at Maynooth University's School of Law and Criminology within the Faculty of Social Sciences. She joined Maynooth as an Assistant Professor in 2018 and is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Research Ireland-funded CONSPACE project (2022-2026), exploring penal nationalism and the Northern Ireland border. Her work spans gendered punishment, death penalty abolition, and postcolonial criminology.
Education:
- LLB Law, Trinity College Dublin
- MA Criminology, Dublin Institute of Technology
- PhD in Law (Trinity College Dublin, 2016), focusing on women and the death penalty in post-independence Ireland
Research Interests: Lynsey's work centers on gendered violence, historical penal systems, and colonial legacies. Key areas include women's lethal violence in Ireland, the role of Magdalen laundries, and death penalty dynamics in the Caribbean. She employs archival research, ethnography, and oral histories to analyze crime, security, and sovereignty at borders. Her work disrupts 'methodological nationalism' in criminology, emphasizing transnational penal systems.
Recent Projects:
- CONSPACE: A four-year project analyzing crime and punishment at the Ireland/Northern Ireland border
- Living Borders: A study of cattle smuggling and border criminality
- Reforming British Law on the Global Death Penalty: Collaborative UK-Caribbean abolition efforts
Awards and Grants:
- Research Ireland Starting Laureate Grant (€378,292)
- Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)
Teaching and Supervision: Coordinates modules like LW164 Criminological Theory and LW272 Gender, Crime, and Criminal Justice. Currently supervising PhD candidate D.C. Jeffersis.
Labs/Teams: Leads the CONSPACE research team and collaborates with institutions like the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and the National Museum of Ireland.
