Judith Walkowitz

Judith Walkowitz is Professor Emerita of History at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in modern British cultural and social history. Pioneering scholarship examines sexuality, gender politics, and urban culture in Victorian and Edwardian London.

Authored influential works including City of Dreadful Delight (1992) analyzing sexual danger narratives, and Nights Out (2012) exploring cosmopolitan transformation of Soho. Guggenheim Fellow (1993-94) and Berkshire Conference Book Prize winner (1980).

Founded history editorship at Feminist Studies and served as Berkshire Conference President (1987-90). Developed premier women's history program at Rutgers University prior to joining Johns Hopkins.

Current research investigates prostitution politics in 20th-century Britain, feminist debates on sex work terminology, and historical agency.