Kaitlyn Muchnok has a B.A. in English Literature and M.A. in World history from New York University. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Florida. Her research explores juvenile justice in the twentieth-century American South with a focus on the regulation of female sexuality, the gendered, racialized, and class-based conceptions of female delinquency, and the treatment of adolescents in southern state institutions. Her dissertation specifically examines the development of Florida’s juvenile justice system in the post-World War II era. Kaitlyn has received several grants and research awards including the College of Arts & Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, Tedder Family Dissertation Fellowship, O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship, the Bertram Wyatt-Brown Dissertation Award, the George Pozzetta Dissertation Research 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. history survey courses, the History of Sexual Violence, and U.S. History Since 1945. She also previously served as the Graduate Research Assistant for the UF Undergraduate History Honors Program from 2019 to 2020 and was the President of UF’s History Graduate Society from 2017 to 2018. She loves the Florida sunshine, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and her two yorkies, Buster and Farley.