Regina Kunzel

Regina Kunzel (born 1959) 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 and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies.

Early life and education Regina Kunzel earned her Ph.D. in history from Yale University and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University.

Career Regina Kunzel began her career in the Department of History at Williams College. Her work explores histories of gender and sexuality, queer history, the history of psychiatry, and the history of incarceration. 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. Publications

Books

Kunzel, Regina, In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life (University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Journals