Prof. Trais Pearson contributed a chapter to Global Forensic Cultures: Making Facts and Justice in the Modern Era

Prof. Trais Pearson contributed a chapter to a new edited volume on the global history of forensic science and medicine. The volume, titled Global Forensic Cultures: Making Facts and Justice in the Modern Era, was edited by Ian Burney and Christopher Hamlin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press this month. Professor Pearson's chapter, "'DNA Evidence Cannot Lie': Forensic Science, Truth Regimes, and Civic Epistemology in Thai History" (chapter 8), uses the controversial case of two Burmese migrant workers convicted of a double-murder in 2015 as an opportunity to explore the history of forensic expertise in relation to broader claims about truth and authority in Thai society.