Paul Renfro

Paul Renfro is an associate professor of history and an affiliate faculty and advisory board member in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Florida State University. Before arriving at FSU, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Presidential History from 2016 through 2018.

Renfro is the author of two books: The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2024) and Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is also the coeditor of Growing Up America: Youth and Politics since 1945 (University of Georgia Press, 2019), and his scholarly articles have appeared in Feminist Studies and Disability Studies Quarterly. Renfro regularly writes for popular outlets such as Time, the New Republic, Slate, the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and Jacobin, and he has been interviewed for stories in The Nation, the New Yorker, Elle, Salon, and Mother Jones.

He is represented by Lucy Cleland at the Calligraph Literary Agency.