Kyle Miron
Email: kmiron@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisor: Judith A. Houck
Mailbox: 4098 Mosse Humanities Building

Biography
I am interested in 19th and 20th century medicine, sexuality, and carceral systems. My dissertation examines the medical and legal treatment of girl juvenile delinquency during and after WWI on the West Coast of the United States.
Education
M.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
B.A., English & Education Studies, Vassar College, 2018
Field
- U.S./North American History
- Gender and Women’s History
MA Title
- “‘She Tells These Stories’: Masturbation, Sexual Violence, and Girl Delinquency in the Milwaukee Juvenile Court, 1901-1929”
Working Dissertation Title
- “Bad Girls, Great War: How WWI Changed Girl Juvenile Justice”
Selected Publications
- “’The Policy of Secrecy’: Parents, Administrators, and Spies Investigating Sexual Violence Before UWPD,” Siftings, University of Wisconsin Center for Campus History, March 18, 2024. https://campushistory.wisc.edu/the-policy-of-secrecy-parents-administrators-and-spies-investigating-sexual-violence-before-uwpd/
- “Becoming Natural: Navigating Nonbinary Parenthood,” Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies, Volume 44, no. 3-4, Summer-Fall 2023, Review of Krys Malcolm Belc, The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood. Counterpoint, 2021. 304 pp. illus. bibl. $26.00, ISBN 978-1640094383.
- “Rejecting an Individualistic Trans Liberation: Hil Malatino’s Side Affects,” Resources for Gender and Women’s Studies, Volume 44, no. 1-2, Winter-Spring 2023, Review of Hil Malatino, Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 224 pp. notes. index. pap., $21.95, ISBN 978-1517912093.
Selected Awards
- Campus-Wide Early Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2024
- Kate Everest Levi Second-Year Paper Prize, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2023
Professional Affiliations
- History of Education Society
- American Association for the History of Medicine
Courses Taught as TA
- History 102: U.S. History 1865 to the Present
- History of Science 212: Bodies, Healers, Disease: Introduction to the History of Medicine