Dr Liz Barnes (she/her) is a Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. Her work traces Black women's transition from slavery to freedom in the United States, using testimonies about sexual violence as a lens to examine women's relationships with various authorities. You can read some of Liz's published work on police sexual violence in the mid-nineteenth century in Policing Women: Histories in the Western World, 1800 to 1950. Liz has also published on freedwomen's relationships with the federal government in American Nineteenth Century History. 

Currently, Liz is converting her PhD thesis into a book.

Dr Lizzie Evens Lizzie Evens (she/her) researches the history of gender, medicine, and policing. Her PhD, awarded by University College London (UCL) in 2021, considered how early female professionals in medicine and policing sought to regulate other women's reproduction and sexuality. She is currently studying medicine at Newcastle University with a view to working in women's and LGBTQ+ healthcare. She has published on the history of abortion in the US and sexual harassment in medicine. 

Grace Watkins (she/her) is a student at Yale Law School and a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford. Her work is on the history of campus police in the United States and focuses on the regulation of sex, gender, and race. You can read her work in her forthcoming co-edited volume Cops on Campus, as well as in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Washington Post.

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