Professor Dr. Lucy Harry

Biography

Lucy Harry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary and a Research Associate at the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) at the University of Oxford. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Criminology and various master's degrees at the University of Oxford and University of St Andrews. Her research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Gregory Kulkes Scholarship, centers on the intersections of the death penalty, gender, migration, and drug policy. Lucy has conducted empirical research on capital punishment in Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya, and the Middle East, and has published in esteemed criminological journals including the British Journal of Criminology and Punishment & Society. She authored a book focused on cases of foreign national women sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Malaysia. Additionally, Lucy has experience guest lecturing on punishment in the Global South at the University of Oxford and has taught undergraduate criminology courses at Oxford Brookes University.

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