Kyle Miron

Biography

My dissertation examines treatment of incarcerated girls in the United States from World War I through the New Deal. I investigate how wartime concern about women’s sexuality and children’s misbehavior became localized and amplified on the bodies of adolescent girls, introducing new ideas about the its causes and new methods to try to correct it. My project examines how police, military, reformers, and social work professionals came to understand girls as a particular war risk and how their efforts to mitigate the threat of their sexual activity did not stay in war policy but collided with the world of juvenile reform and left lasting marks on juvenile courts and reformatories. I trace these impacts from reform efforts into the New Deal programs that federalized the treatment of incarcerated children.

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 World War One Changed American Girls’ Carceral Lives”

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

• American Association for the History of Medicine
• Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• American Historical Association

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
• History of Science 211: Food Histories from Farm to Table

Courses Taught as Instructor

• History of Science 212: Bodies, Healers, Disease: Introduction to the History of Medicine