Participant Info
- First Name
- Kaitlyn
- Last Name
- Muchnok
- Country
- United States
- State
- FL Florida
- kaitlynmuchnok@ufl.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Florida
- Website URL
- http://florida.academia.edu/KaitlynMuchnok
- Keywords
- Juvenile Justice, Gender & Sexuality, Crime & Punishment, Childhood & the State, United States South, Twentieth-Century America.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Kaitlyn Muchnok is a PhD Candidate at the University of Florida. Her research explores juvenile justice in the American South throughout the twentieth century with a focus on the regulation of female sexuality, gendered and racialized conceptions of female delinquency, and the treatment of adolescents in southern state institutions for delinquent and dependent children. Kaitlyn has received several grants and research awards including the Tedder Family Dissertation Fellowship, O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship, the Bertram Wyatt-Brown Dissertation Award, and the University of Florida History Graduate Society Dissertation Award. Kaitlyn also received a university Graduate Teaching award in 2019. During her time at UF, she has taught both U.S. survey courses and the History of Sexual Violence. She currently serves as the Graduate Managing Editor for Alpata, the history department’s student-run journal and previously served as UF’s History Graduate Society President from 2017 to 2018.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @kaitmuchnok
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Family, Gender, Law, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
