We're pleased to welcome Robinson's 4th Visiting Baxandall Fellow, Professor Krista Kesselring.

Krista Kesselring is Professor of History at Dalhousie University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. At Dalhousie, she teaches courses in History, Gender & Women’s Studies, and the Law, Justice & Society program.

She has previously published works on early modern English law, crime, and politics, with monographs on the royal pardon, the Northern Rebellion of 1569, and homicide. Her most recent monograph, co-authored with Tim Stretton, is Marriage, Separation and Divorce in England, 1500-1700 (2021). She has edited or co-edited several volumes of essays, including with Natalie Mears, Star Chamber Matters: An Early Modern Court and its Records (2021) and with Matthew Neufeld, Reckoning with History: Essays on Uses of the Past (2024). She is also a regular contributor to the collaborative academic blog, Legal History Miscellany. During her fellowship, she will continue to work on women’s and legal history, exploring how changing uses of records, precedents, and evidence impinged upon the pursuit of justice in both particular cases and in the abstract.

Krista's Baxandall Lecture will be on 18 March 2025.  Our thanks to alumni Leigh Baxandall for funding this Visiting Fellowship.

External links: Dalhousie University faculty page