Professor Nicole Rafter (July 2005 – July 2006)

Professor Rafter is currently Professor and Senior Research Fellow, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University and Affiliated Faculty Member, Law, Policy and Society Program, Northeastern University. Professor Rafter is one of America's most distinguished socio-legal scholars. She is a notable social scientist with an international reputation of the highest order and has received may honours and distinctions in her field, including the Fellowship of the American Society of Criminology and residency in the Bogliasco Centro. Professor Rafter has a strong background in history, sociology, law and criminology. This provides her with a rather unique competence to explore and deconstruct the epistemological basis for today's criminological knowledge from a historical perspective. During her stay at the Centre, Professor Rafter will continue her work on a socio-legal history of biological theories of crime begun in 2004 during a Seminar Visiting Research Fellowship from St. John's College, Oxford.