Dr Kathryn Henne
Areas of expertise
- Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology 160808
- Law And Society 180119
- Criminology 1602
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
- Race And Ethnic Relations 160803
- Social Theory 160806
- Globalisation And Culture 200206
Research interests
crime, law and society; deviance; inequality and social justice; regulation and governance; science and technology studies; sociology of health; surveillance
Biography
Professor Kathryn (Kate) Henne is the Director of RegNet, the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance. She took up the role after holding the Canada Research Chair in Biogovernance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo, where she established and directed the Law and Society Emergent Research (LaSER) Lab. An interdisciplinarily trained scholar, she has a PhD in Criminology, Law and Society (with emphases in Critical Theory and Feminist Studies and a specialisation in Anthropologies of Medicine, Science and Technology) from the University of California, Irvine.
Her research interests, broadly conceived, are concerned with the interface between inequality, technoscience and social control. Her publications span issues of biometric surveillance, criminological knowledge production, gender regulation, human enhancement and well-being, regulatory science, social protection, and technologies of policing. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Canada Research Chairs Program, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, International Olympic Committee, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and World Anti-Doping Agency.
More information about her research, teaching and outreach are available at https://katehenne.com.
Researcher's projects
Kate Henne's ongoing work examines intersections between regulation, technoscience and embodiment. Currently, she has two projects:
Traumatic Brain Injury and Regulatory Science
This ARC-funded project focuses on emergent regulatory responses to traumatic brain injury. Looking at experiences of athletes, military personnel and survivors of partner-inflicted violence in Australia, Canada and the United States, including U.S. Pacific Island territories, the project aims to illuminate how social categories of difference, science and health policy inform regulation, as well as how those dynamics reflect shifting understandings of brain health, the relationship between the mind and body and (injured) human agency.
Technologies of Social Assistance
Her second program of work, supported by an ANU Futures Scheme award, is a multi-sited study of how biometric technologies, predictive algorithms and risk assessment models are increasingly used as regulatory tools in the context of social assistance and aid delivery. It asks: how are these different technologies and modes of authentication and verification informing practices and experiences of regulation, especially among marginalised groups? What are the outcomes and implications, especially given the wider financialisation of this sector?
In addition to current projects, Prof Henne has studied global sports governance for over a decade, most notably in relation to regulatory mechanisms used to police athletes' bodies (e.g., gender verification, performance and image-enhancing drug detection). Her first book, Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport, draws upon fieldwork conducted in Australasia, Europe and North America to trace the emergence of technocratic rules aimed at enforcing ideologies of ‘fair play’. She has also written about gender empowerment agendas, mega-events, sport for development and peace programs and transparency.
She is also the co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Shifting Power Structures in the 21st Century (with A/Prof Blayne Haggart and Dr Natasha Tusikov) and the Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies (with A/Prof Rita Shah).
Current student projects
Principal Supervisor: Jenna Harb, Daniel Reeders, Heidi Tyedmers
Associate Supervisor: Kirsty Anantharajah, Vijetta Bachraz, Albert de la Tierra, Meredith Edelman, Felicity Gray, Tony Kiessler, Marie-Eve Loiselle, Therese Pearce Laanela, Brian Schram, Renée Shelby, Elise Vist
Publications
- Henne, K 2020, 'Brain Politics: Gendered Difference and Traumatic Brain Injury in Sport', in Matt Ventresca & Mary G McDonald (ed.), Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions, Routledge, New York, pp. 151-170.
- Henne, K & Ventresca, M 2020, A Criminal Mind? A Damaged Brain? Narratives of Criminality and Culpability in the Celebrated Case of Aaron Hernandez', Crime, Media, Culture, Online First.
- Shah, R & Henne, K 2020, 'Introduction: Public Criminology Reconsidered - An Invitation', in K Henne & R Shah (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies, Routledge, New York, pp. 1-7.
- Harb, J, and Henne, K 2019, 'Disinformation and Resistance in the Surveillance of Indigenous Protesters', in B Haggart, K Henne and N Tusikov (ed.), Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Shifting Power Structures in the 21st Century, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham Switzerland, pp. 187-212.
- Henne, K 2019, 'Surveillance in the Name of Governance: Aadhaar as a Fix for Leaking Systems in India', in B Haggart, K Henne and N Tusikov (ed.), Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Shifting Power Structures in the 21st Century, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham Switzerland, pp. 223-246.
- Henne, K & Troshynski, E 2019, 'Intersectional Criminologies for the Contemporary Moment: Crucial Questions of Power, Praxis and Technologies of Control', Critical Criminology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 55-71.
- Henne, K and Pape, M 2018, 'Dilemmas of Gender and Global Sports Governance: An Invitation to Southern Theory', Sociology of Sport Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 216-225.
- McDermott, V, Henne, K and Hayes, J 2018, 'Shifting Risk to the Frontline: Case Studies in Different Contract Working Environments', Journal of Risk Research, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 1502-1516.
- Ritchie, I and Henne, K 2018, 'Amateurism, Scientific Control and Crime: Historical Fluctuations in Anti-Doping Discourses in Sport', Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 18-29.
- Henne, K 2018, 'Criminalisation', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom.
- Henne, K 2018, 'Intersectionality Theory of Gender and Race', in Hilary Callan (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., United Kingdom.
- Henne, K 2017, 'Indicator Culture in Sport for Development and Peace: A Transnational Analysis of Governance Networks', Third World Thematics, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 69-86.
- Henne, K 2017, '"I Felt like a Lab Rat": The Importance of Power and Context in Understanding Biometric Technologies', American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 63-65.
- Henne, K 2017, 'Feminist Criminology', in A Deckert & R Sarre (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice, Springer, pp. 587-602.
- Henne, K 2017, 'Multi-Sited Fieldwork in Regulatory Studies', in P Drahos (ed.), Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications, Canberra: ANU Press, pp. 97-114.
- Henne, K, and Troshynski, E 2017, 'Intersectionality', in A Brisman, E Carrabine and N South (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts, Routledge, Oxon, pp. 316-320.
- Roussell, A, Henne, K, Glover, K, and Willits, D 2017, 'Impossibility of a "Reverse Racism" Effect', Criminology and Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12289
- Henne, K 2016, 'Defending Doping: Performances and Trials of an Anti-Doping Program', Journal of Sport and Social Issues, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 175-196.
- Henne, K 2016, 'Steroids', in N A Naples (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Chicester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pp. 1-3.
- Henne, K 2016, 'The Straight Dope on Regulating Fair Play in Sport', Anthropology News, vol. 57, no. 7-8, pp. 5-7.
- Henne, K 2016, 'The Emergence of Moral Technopreneurialism in Sport: Techniques in Anti-Doping Regulation, 1966-1976', in J Gleaves, T Hunt (ed.), A Global History of Doping in Sport: Drugs, Policy, and Politics, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon, pp. 70-87.
- Henne, K and Shah, R 2016, 'Feminist Criminology and the Visual', in M Brown (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crime, Media and Popular Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.56
- Henne, K 2015, 'Reforming Global Sport: Hybridity and the Challenges of Pursuing Transparency', Law and Policy, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 324-349.
- Henne, K 2015, Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
- Henne, K and Shah, R 2015, 'Unveiling White Logic in Criminological Research: An Intertextual Analysis', Contemporary Justice Review, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 105-120.
- Henne, K 2014, 'The "Science" of Fair Play in Sport: Gender and the Politics of Testing', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 787-812.
- Henne, K 2014, 'The Emergence of Moral Technopreneurialism in Sport: Techniques in Anti-doping Regulation, 1966-1976', International Journal for the History of Sport, vol. 31, no. 8: pp. 884-901.
- Henne, K 2013, 'From the Academy to the UN and Back Again: The Travelling Politics of Intersectionality', Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, vol. 33. URL: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue33/henne.htm
- Henne, K, Koh, B and McDermott, V 2013, 'Coherence of Drug Policy in Sports: Illicit Inclusions and Illegal Inconsistencies', Performance Enhancement & Health, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 48-55.
- Henne, K, Koh, B and McDermott, V 2013, 'Rethinking WADA: What Exactly Are We Reconsidering?', Performance Enhancement & Health, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 48-59.
- Henne, K and Troshynski, E 2013, 'Mapping the Margins of Intersectionality: Criminological Possibilities in a Transnational World', Theoretical Criminology, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 455-473.
- Henne, K and Troshynski, E 2013, 'Suspect Subjects: Affects of Bodily Regulation', International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 100-112.
- Henne, K and Troshynski, E 2013, 'Technologies of Biosurveillance: Bodily Regulation through the Lens of Ordinary Affection', in K Richards & J Tuari (eds.), Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, Vol. 1, Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology, pp. 84-91.
- Connor, J, Henne, K and McDermott, V 2013, 'Legitimating the Fight? Questions about Cross-cultural Perspectives on Anti-Doping Strategies in the Pacific', in H Forbes-Mewett, N Osbaldistson and C Strong (eds.), Reflections, Intersections and Aspirations: 50 Years of Australian Sociology, Melbourne: Monash University.
- Henne, K 2012, 'Tracing Olympic Bio-Citizenship: The Implications of Testing for Ineligibility', in J Forsyth and M K Heine (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium for Olympic Research, London: University of Western Ontario, pp. 83-87.
- Henne, K and Shah, R 2012, 'Re-imagining the Images of the Crimino-Legal Complex: Toward a Critical Pedagogy', The Critical Criminologist, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 4-9.
- Henne, K 2011, 'Enemies and Citizens of the State: Die Boeremag as the Face of Postapartheid Otherness', Critical Criminology: An International Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 285-299.
- Henne, K 2010, 'WADA, the Promises of Law and the Landscapes of Antidoping Regulation', PoLAR: Politlcal and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 306-325.
- Henne, K 2009, 'Taking a Break to Think through Gender and Regulation: Doping as a Case Study', in Thinking Gender Papers, Center for the Study of Women. Los Angeles: University of California.
- Henne, K 2009, 'The Origins of the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission and its Technocratic Regime', Lausanne: International Olympic Committee.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Tackling a Silent Epidemic: Regulatory Science and Traumatic Brain Injury (Primary Investigator)
