Professor Dr. Andrea Mckenzie

Biography

Andrea McKenzie is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, specializing in the social and cultural history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, particularly in aspects of law, trial, execution, and print culture, including dying speeches and confessions. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at the University of British Columbia, pursued a Master’s at York University, and earned her PhD at the University of Toronto under the supervision of legal social historian John Beattie. McKenzie has lived and taught in Brisbane, Australia, before taking an appointment at the University of Victoria in 2004. Her research interests include early modern Britain, crime legal history, conspiratorial politics, and manuscript culture. She conducts research on various notable historical events, such as the conspiracy thinking surrounding the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey in 1678, and is currently working on a monograph that explores the themes of conspiratorial politics, anti-Catholicism, and the moral panic surrounding the public professions of belief in what was known as the “Popish Plot” during a political constitutional crisis in England. McKenzie has received several accolades, including the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011 and has published books and articles on related topics.

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