Biography of Regina Kunzel

Biography of Regina Kunzel

Regina Kunzel holds the Doris Stevens Chair and is Professor of History and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.  She received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University and her BA from Stanford University.  Her most recent book, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2008) was awarded the American Historical Association’s John Boswell Prize, the Modern Language Association’s Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality’s Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award, and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies. Kunzel is also the author of Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890 to 1945 (Yale University Press, 1993), as well as articles on the history of prison sexual culture, LGBT/queer history and disability studies, and the history of the criminalization of sexual difference.