Dr. Frances Henry

Lecturer

Phone:
Email: fhenry@uwo.ca

Frances H. I. Henry is a sessional instructor in history at King’s University College at Western University, Canada. She received her PhD in History from Western University in 2019. Her research focuses on homosexuality in early modern Europe, particularly the intersections of sexuality, gender, religion, and law. Her work is frequently interdisciplinary, combining history, psychology, sociology, and gender studies.

Education

• PhD (Western University, 2019)
• MLIS (Western University, 2009)
• MA (University of Ottawa, 2006)
• BA (University of Ottawa, 2005)

Teaching

• HIS 2190A: Crime in North American Society
• HIS 1820G: Select Topics in History (Crime Fighting in Pre-Modern Europe)

Research

• Queer history
• Legal history
• Crime and punishment
• History of emotions
• Gender history
• Intersections of culture and crime
• Race and Ethnicity

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• Frances H. I. Henry and Anna Henry, “Chapter 16:  Sexual Orientation in the Furry Fandom,” in Courtney N. Plante, Stephen Reysen, Camielle Adams, Sharon Roberts, and Kathleen C. Gerbasi (Eds), Furscience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom. Commerce, TX: International Anthropomorphic Research Project, 2023: 497-544. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376353096_Furscience_A_Decade_of_Psychological_Research_on_the_Furry_Fandom
• Thomas R. Brooks, Frances H. I. Henry, Anna Henry, and Courtney N. Plante, “Chapter 10: Sex and Pornography” in Courtney N. Plante, Stephen Reysen, Camielle Adams, Sharon Roberts, and Kathleen C. Gerbasi (Eds), Furscience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom. Commerce, TX: International Anthropomorphic Research Project, 2023: 259-283. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376353096_Furscience_A_Decade_of_Psychological_Research_on_the_Furry_Fandom
• Anna R. Henry, Frances H.I. Henry, Sharon Roberts, and Courtney N. Plante, “Chapter 15: Sex and Gender in the Furry Fandom” in Courtney N. Plante, Stephen Reysen, Camielle Adams, Sharon Roberts, and Kathleen C. Gerbasi (Eds), Furscience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom. Commerce, TX: International Anthropomorphic Research Project, 2023: 443-496. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376353096_Furscience_A_Decade_of_Psychological_Research_on_the_Furry_Fandom

Book Reviews

• Frances Henry, “Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. By Paul Kelleher. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 2015. 270 p. $90 (hb). ISBN: 978-1-61148-694-0” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 41 (3) 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12539

Conference Papers:

• Frances Henry, “The Quality of Mercy is (Definitely) Strained: Lieutenant Robert Jones and the Unchristian Mercy of George III.” Law and Governance in Britain, Western University, 20-21 October 2017
• Frances Henry “‘The best way to serve an Englishman’: Sodomy and Race on the H.M.S. Africaine, 1815.” McCaffrey Memorial Seminar Series, Western University, 10 November 2016.
• Frances Henry, “From Buggery to Unnatural Crime: British Newspapers, Sodomy, and the Rise of Politeness.” McCaffrey Memorial Seminar Series, Western University, 23 March 2016.
• Frances Henry, “‘Imported from Italy, … the mother and nurse of sodomy’: Xenophobia, Religion and Sodomy in 18^th Century England.” Paper presented at Prisms, Paradigms and Paradoxes, 4^th Annual History Graduate Student Conference, Western University, 1-2 May 2015
• Frances Henry, “If one chaste love’: Asexuality and the life of Michelangelo Buonnarotti.” Paper presented at Queer Research Day, Western University, 17 April 2013.
• Frances Henry, “Hermaphrodites of the Soul: Discourse and Sodomy in Renaissance Italy.” Paper presented at the 2^nd Annual Pierre Savard Conference, University of Ottawa, April 2006.