Eva Payne, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Eva Payne is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century U.S. with a focus on women, gender, and sexuality and the U.S. in transnational perspective. She is an Assistant Professor in the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History at the University of Mississippi. Payne’s current book project asks how and why many American reformers came to see sexual issues – including prostitution, the legal age of consent, venereal disease, and sex trafficking – as central international humanitarian and political problems in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: History of sexual commerce and labor; the relationship between gender, sexuality and the state