Regina Kunzel
Regina Kunzel is an American author, historian, and academic. She has held the Doris Stevens Chair and is a professor of History and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.[1] She received the American Historical Association’s John Boswell Prize, Modern Language Association’s Alan Bray Memorial Book Award[2] and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies.[3]
Early life and education
Regina G. Kunzel earned her Ph.D. in history from Yale University and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.[4]
Career
In 1994, Regina G. Kunzel served as an assistant professor of history at Williams College.[5] Her academic career has revolved around the exploration of historical intersections between social work, gender roles, and sexuality.[6] She was a co-editor for the Gender & History and also co-edits a book series on sexuality studies.[7]
She formerly worked as a history professor at the University of Minnesota, where she studied the records of St. Elizabeths Hospital, a government hospital that treated patients with mental diseases.[8]
Publications
Books
- Kunzel, Regina G. (1993). Fallen women, problem girls: unmarried mothers and the professionalization of social work, 1890 - 1945. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. ISBN 9780300065091.
- Kunzel, Regina G. (2008). Criminal intimacy: prison and the uneven history of modern American sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago press. ISBN 9780226462264.
Journals
- Kunzel, Regina G. (1988). "The Professionalization of Benevolence: Evangelicals and Social Workers in the Florence Crittenton Homes, 1915 to 1945". Journal of Social History. 22 (1): 21–43. ISSN 0022-4529.
- Kunzel, Regina (December 1995). "Pulp Fictions and Problem Girls: Reading and Rewriting Single Pregnancy in the Postwar United States". The American Historical Review. 100 (5): 1465. doi:10.2307/2169866.
- Kunzel, Regina (1 January 2011). "QUEER STUDIES IN QUEER TIMES". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 17 (1): 155–165. doi:10.1215/10642684-2010-026.
- Kunzel, Regina (1 May 2014). "The Flourishing of Transgender Studies". TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 1 (1–2): 285–297. doi:10.1215/23289252-2399461.
- Kunzel, Regina (2017). "Queer History, Mad History, and the Politics of Health". American Quarterly. 69 (2): 315–319. doi:10.1353/aq.2017.0026.
- Kunzel, Regina (1 December 2018). "The Power of Queer History". The American Historical Review. 123 (5): 1560–1582. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy202.
References
- Alicee (10 January 2018). "Queer History Lecture features Princeton scholar Regina Kunzel". Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). University of Oregon.
- Gorelick, Evan (2 February 2022). "Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies continues expansion". Yale Daily News.
- "Taking Home The Literary Gold". CURVE. 5 September 2013.
- Hannan, Frances (30 March 2023). "Fellows You Should Know: Women's and Gender Studies". The Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
- Goetz, Jill. "Women's History Month symposium puts single motherhood in historical perspective | Cornell Chronicle". news.cornell.edu. Cornell Chronicle.
- Morantz-Sanchez, Regina (16 January 1994). "From Victims to Menaces (Published 1994)". The New York Times.
- "Regina Kunzel designated the Larned Professor". YaleNews. 23 April 2020.
- "Fighting against long-standing stigmas". The Diamondback. 1 January 1000.