Directors

Regina Kunzel

Co-Director

Regina Kunzel is the Larned Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Kunzel is the author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality, Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890 to 1945, and articles on queer history, trans studies, disability studies, and the history of incarceration. Her current project explores the encounter of queer and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the twentieth-century United States.

Joanne Meyerowitz

joanne.meyerowitz@yale.edu

Co-Director

Joanne Meyerowitz is Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies. She has written on the history of gender and sexuality in the twentieth-century U.S. Her books include How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States and A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit. Her articles on gender and sexuality have appeared in the American Historical Review, Gender and History, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Journal of American History, Journal of Women’s History, and other publications.