Teaching Fellows (History)

Corbin Page is a postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences collegiate division. He studies legal history, the history of criminal law, civil detention, and the human sciences. His book project is a comprehensive history of the development of modern sex offender laws in the United States, spanning the late-nineteenth to the late-twentieth century. The project examines the expert discourses and laws that constituted sexual criminals as uniquely abject and dangerous. It also uncovers how the accused experienced and responded to this regime, showing how their successful midcentury legal challenges to arbitrary and discriminatory laws expanded sexual freedom for many queer people but also inadvertently contributed to the rise of the determinate sentencing movement and contemporary sex offender registration and notification laws.

Corbin has published work in the journal History of Psychology and in the Chicago Review. He holds a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Florida.