Regina Kunzel Explained

Regina Kunzel is an American author, historian, and academic. She is the Larned Professor of History at Yale. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, she held the Doris Stevens Chair at Princeton University, the Paul R. Frenzel Chair at the University of Minnesota, and the Fairleigh Dickinson Chair at Williams College. Her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2008) received the American Historical Association’s John Boswell Prize, the Modern Language Association’s Alan Bray Memorial Book Award^[1] and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies.^[2]

Early life and education

Regina Kunzel earned her Ph.D. in history from Yale University and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.^[3]

Career

Regina Kunzel began her career in the Department of History at Williams College.^[4] Her work explores histories of gender and sexuality, queer history, the history of psychiatry, and the history of incarceration.^[5] She was a co-editor for the journal Gender & History. With Janice Irvine, she co-edits a book series on sexuality studies for Temple University Press.^[6]

Publications

Books

• Book: none . Kunzel . Regina . Fallen women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890 - 1945 . 1993 . . New Haven . 9780300065091.
• Book: none . Kunzel . Regina . Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality . . Chicago . 2008 . 9780226462264.
• Kunzel, Regina, In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Journals

• none . Kunzel . Regina G. . The Professionalization of Benevolence: Evangelicals and Social Workers in the Florence Crittenton Homes, 1915 to 1945 . . 1988 . 22 . 1 . 21–43 . 10.1353/jsh/22.1.21 . 3787950 . 0022-4529.
• none . Kunzel . Regina . Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States . . December 1995 . 100 . 5 . 1465–1487 . 10.2307/2169866. 2169866 .
• none . Kunzel . Regina . Queer Studies in Queer Times . . 1 January 2011 . 17 . 1 . 155–165 . 10.1215/10642684-2010-026.
• none. Kunzel . Regina . The Flourishing of Transgender Studies . TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly . 1 May 2014 . 1 . 1–2 . 285–297 . 10.1215/23289252-2399461. free .
• none. Kunzel . Regina . Queer History, Mad History, and the Politics of Health . . 2017 . 69 . 2 . 315–319 . 10.1353/aq.2017.0026.
• none. Kunzel . Regina . The Power of Queer History . . 1 December 2018 . 123 . 5 . 1560–1582 . 10.1093/ahr/rhy202.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gorelick . Evan . Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies continues expansion . . en . 2 February 2022.
2. Web site: Taking Home The Literary Gold . CURVE . 5 September 2013.
3. Web site: Hannan . Frances . Fellows You Should Know: Women's and Gender Studies . . 30 March 2023.
4. Web site: Goetz . Jill . Women's History Month symposium puts single motherhood in historical perspective Cornell Chronicle . news.cornell.edu . . en.
5. Web site: Morantz-Sanchez . Regina . From Victims to Menaces (Published 1994) . . en . 16 January 1994.
6. Web site: Regina Kunzel designated the Larned Professor . YaleNews . en . 23 April 2020.