Dr Alana Piper is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. She has published widely on gender, crime and legal history. Alana’s work also draws on digital humanities approaches, both in her previous role as a Research Fellow on the ARC Laureate Fellowship “The Prosecution Project” (2014–2018), and her current Chancellor’s Fellowship project “Criminal Characters” (2018–2022).