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Regina Kunzel

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies 425 Ford Hall

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Modern U.S. history
  • History of Sexuality
  • Gender and women's history
  • History of the prison and incarceration

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: History, Yale University, 1990.
  • B.A.: History, Stanford University, 1981.

Publications

  • Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Kunzel, Regina G, University of Chicago Press, Author, 2008.
  • "Situating Sex: Prison Sexual Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States": Kunzel, Regina G, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 8 , 2003.
  • Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States: Kunzel, Regina G, American Historical Review, 100 , 1995.
  • Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945. Kunzel, Regina G, Yale University Press, Author, 1993.

Professional Activities

  • Co-editor: Gender & History
  • Co-editor: "Sexuality Studies," a book series published by Temple University Press

Awards

  • Finalist, John Hope Franklin Prize for best book in American Studies, 2009
  • John Boswell Prize for outstanding book on LGBT history published in the past two years, 2009
  • Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Studies) for Criminal Intimacy
  • Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2000 - 2001
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1992 - 1993

Courses Taught

  • GWSS 3290/HIST 3960: History and the Body
  • HIST 5960: Space, Time, and the History of Sexuality
  • HIST 5802: Readings in American History Since 1848
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009

  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

     June 5th, 2009

  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

     June 5th, 2009

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