Associate Professor, Wichita State University

Robin C. Henry is a scholar of gender and sexuality and legal and constitutional rights, including late 20^th and 21^st century civil rights movements. She earned her Ph.D. in US history from Indiana University in Bloomington in 2006. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wichita State University, serves as the Graduate Coordinator of the M.A. program, and is a faculty fellow in the Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors College.

She is the author of numerous articles and chapters dealing with the construction of masculinity in the American West, sexual education in the early twentieth century, the effects of legal dormancy on public policy and civil rights, and the memory of the Ludlow massacre. She is a contributor to the KMUW commentary series, “Past and Present,” as well as the author and creator of the 6-part podcast, Hindsight: Looking Back at 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. Her book, Criminalizing Sex, Defining Sexuality: Sexual Regulation and Masculinity in the American West, 1850-1927 is forthcoming from New York University Press. Currently, she is working on a book on the Colorado jurist and juvenile legal advocate, Benjamin Barr Lindsey.