Briony Neilson

Briony Neilson is a historian of criminal justice and penal reform in the late modern era, particularly in France and its penal colony in New Caledonia. An honorary associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, she serves as editor of the George Rudé Society’s scholarly journal French History & Civilization and is currently preparing a monograph for publication by McGill-Queen’s University Press on the history of age consciousness, regeneration, and juvenile criminality in France in the fin de siècle.