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Justine Semmens

Justine Semmens has a PhD in history (2021) from the University of Victoria. Her research examines gender, marriage, and the state in early modern France through the lens of sex crime appeals at the parlement of Paris. Her dissertation has been nominated for the Governor General’s Gold Medal and the Gold Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the Humanities. Dr. Semmens’ holds a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria and is working on a book project entitled Dangerous Liaisons: Sex, Crime, and the State in Catholic Reformation France, 1500-1700. An article on Infanticide, co-authored with Sara Beam, will be published in The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance later this year.