Regina Kunzel

Regina Kunzel is an American author, historian, and academic.

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.

[3] Regina Kunzel began her career in the Department of History at Williams College.

With Janice Irvine, she co-edits a book series on sexuality studies for Temple University Press.