A Conversation with Regina Kunzel

Regina Kunzel (Yale University) will join the Gender History Workshop for a casual lunch conversation about her work in gender and queer history in the US. See the bio below for more information.

Students and faculty are welcome! Please fill out this RSVP form to help us plan catering.

Bio: 

Regina Kunzel is Larned Professor of History and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Kunzel is an historian of the modern United States with interests in histories of gender and sexuality, queer history, the history of psychiatry, and the history of incarceration. Kunzel’s most recent book, In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life (University of Chicago, 2024), explores the encounter of queer and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the 20-century US.  Kunzel’s 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 Lambda Literary Award, the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality’s Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award, and was a finalist for the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize.  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).