Mr Paul M. Renfro

Profile

Paul M. Renfro is an assistant professor of history at Florida State University and the author of Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is also the coeditor (with Sara Fieldston and Susan Eckelmann Berghel) of Growing Up America: Youth and Politics since 1945 (University of Georgia Press, 2019). Renfro's next book, which will focus on Ryan White and the AIDS crisis, is under advance contract with the University of North Carolina Press. His public writing has appeared in TIME, the Washington Post, Dissent, Slate, and the New Republic, and he has been interviewed for stories in ELLE, Mother Jones, and Jezebel. Before arriving at Florida State University, Renfro served as a postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

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Publications

Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2020); Growing Up America: Youth and Politics since 1945 (University of Georgia Press, 2019).

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