Regina Kunzel, a professor at the University of Minnesota, will join the faculty at Princeton University as of July 1, 2013.

She will be the Doris Stevens Professor in Women's Studies and hold joint appointments in history and gender & sexuality studies.

Kunzel is the author of Criminal Intimacy: Sex in Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (2008), which won prizes from the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and a Lambda Literary Award.

She holds a B.A. from Stanford University in 1981 and her PhD from Yale University in 1990.