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Yvonne M. Pitts is an Associate Professor at Purdue University in the College of Liberal Arts, specializing in American legal culture, legal constitutional history, history of sexuality, and queer history. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2006. Her research focuses on American legal constitutional history, with an emphasis on citizenship, sexual regulation, and the implications of legal frameworks on ordinary people's intimate relationships in the context of nineteenth-century Kentucky. Pitts authored the book 'Family, Law, Inheritance America: Social Legal History Nineteenth Century Kentucky' published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, which won the Cromwell Foundation Book Prize awarded by the American Society for Legal History. Her current projects investigate the regulation of vice and sex work during the Civil War era, examining the intersection of military authority and civilian regulation in Nashville, TN, from 1863 to 1865. In addition to her teaching, she co-leads a study abroad program titled 'Sex, History, Cities', which explores LGBTQ history and culture across major cities from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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