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Regina Kunzel

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies 425 Ford Hall 224 Church St SE

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 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)
  • “Lessons in Being Gay: Queer Encounters in Gay and Lesbian Prison Activism," Queer Futures, special issue of Radical History Review No. 100 (Winter 2008): 11-37.
  • “Situating Sex: Prison Sexual Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States,“ GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8:3 (2002): 253-70.
  • “Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States,“ American Historical Review 100 (December 1995): 1465-87. (Reprinted in Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950, eds. Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas [Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000]).
  • Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890 to 1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)

Professional Activities

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

Awards

  • John Boswell Prize for outstanding book on LGBT history published in the past two years, 2009
  • Finalist, John Hope Franklin Prize for best book in American Studies, 2009
  • Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies, Modern Language Association, 2009
  • Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Studies) for Criminal Intimacy
  • Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award, Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, 2009
  • Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2000 - 2001
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1992 - 1993

Courses Taught

  • HIST 5910/HIST 8910/GWSS 5790: Readings in Critical Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • 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

  • Major Awards for History Profs. Kevin Murphy, Barbara Welke, Donna Gabaccia (2), Kay Reyerson, Elaine Tyler May

    It has been a season for great honors and accomplishments for our faculty. Congratulations to all!

    Donna Gabaccia is one of the recipients of the 2013 University Outstanding Community Service Award
    Donna Gabaccia has been awarded the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective.
    Elaine Tyler May has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013 by The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
    Kevin Murphy is a 2013 recipient of the UofM's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education.
    Kay Reyerson has been awarded the Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies by the Medieval Academy.
    Barbara Welke has been named one of the new Distinguished McKnight University Professors.

     April 3rd, 2013

  • 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History to Ruth Karras

    Congratulations to Professor Ruth Karras, who has been named co-winner of the AHA's 2012 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

    Given by the American Historical Association and named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).

     November 13th, 2012

  • Erika Lee to receive 2012 Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award

    Congratulations to Erika Lee who has been awarded the Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in Humanities, Arts and Sciences for 2012 at the University of Minnesota.

    Erika Lee received the award at the Celebrating University Women Awards Program on October 12, 2012.

    October 30th, 2012

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