Katherine Bruce-Lockhart(she/her)is anAssociate Professor in History at the University of ݮƵ and is also a faculty member at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar.
Bruce-Lockhart’s research examines the global history of prisons, punishment, and human rights. Her recent book,, analyzes how prisons and other colonial carceral spaces persisted in Uganda after independence and critiques their ongoing existence. Bruce-Lockhart is currently working on several comparative and collaborative projects: one on British colonial incarceration and punishment on the African continent; another tracing the history of the Nelson Mandela Rules and movements for prisoners’ rights and prison abolition within the United Nations and other international forums; and one looking at the mass early releases of prisoners around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education:
- PhD History, University of Cambridge
- MSc. African Studies, University of Oxford
- BA (Honours), University of Toronto
Research, Teaching, and Supervision Interests:
- Global History
- History of prisons and punishment
- Punishment and Society
- Human Rights and Justice
- Critical Prison Studies
- African History
- Gender History
- Social History
- Critical Archive Studies
- Oral History
Courses Taught:
- HIST605 -Global Governance in Historical Perspective
- HIST422 - Incarceration and Resistance in South Africa During Apartheid
- HIST323 - Global History of the Prison
- HIST322 - Global History of the Detention Camp
- HIST263 -The Age of Revolution: Europe in the 19thCentury
- ARTS130 - Violence, Truth, and Justice
Selected Awards and Honours
- Joel Gregory Book Prize, Canadian Association of African Studies, 2024
- Peggy Renner Award for Teaching and Curricular Innovation, Western Association of Women Historians, 2024
- Canadian Historical Association’s Teaching Prize, 2023
- Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty of Arts, University of ݮƵ - 2022
- Royal Society of Canada - 2017
Recent Publications
- History Australia 21:2 (2024): 184-203 (co-authored with Tolulope Akande).
- “Discourses of Development and Practices of Punishment: Britain’s Gendered Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Colonial Kenya.” In . Edited by Martin Thomas and Gareth Curless, 482-500. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023 (co-authored with Bethany Rebisz).
- . Athens: Ohio University Press, 2022.
- Suffolk: James Currey, 2022 (co-edited with Jonathon L. Earle, Nakanyike B. Musisi, and Edgar C. Taylor).
- “Coloniality and Power in Uganda’s Archives.” In . Edited by Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, Jonathon L. Earle, Nakanyike B. Musisi, and Edgar C. Taylor, 197-221. Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. (co-authored with Riley Linebaugh)
- “.” Punishment & Society 24:5 (2022): 759-770 (co-authored with Erin Braatz and Stacey Hynd).
- Incarceration: An international journal of imprisonment, detention and coercive confinement3:1 (2022): 1-20.
- The Conversation. November 9, 2021.
- “.”The Conversation. June 15, 2020.