Awards

National Academies - 1987

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About June Reinisch

June Machover Reinisch earned her B.S. from New York University in 1966, and her M.A. in 1970 and Ph.D. in 1976 both from Columbia University. A psychologist, educator, and researcher, Reinisch served as director of the Kinsey Institute from 1982-1993. Concurrently, she was professor of clinical psychology at the IU School of Medicine and professor of psychology at IU Bloomington. Previously, she was professor of psychology and psychiatry at Rutgers University, 1975-1982. Reinisch's research advances the public's general knowledge of human sexual activity. She has published more than 100 scientific papers in such journals as Science, Nature, JAMA, American Psychologist, Hormones and Behavior, MMWR, JPSP, Archives of Internal Medicine, and the British and American Journals of Psychiatry.

During her tenure as Kinsey director, the institute produced "The Kinsey Report," an internationally syndicated newspaper column, which she wrote three times a week, and published "The Kinsey Institute Series," resulting from multidisciplinary seminars sponsored by the institute. Additionally, in 1990 the institute's art gallery was established. In 1991, a trade book aimed at popular audiences, The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What you must know to be Sexually Literate, was released. Reinisch's research has been funded by: the National Institute of Mental Health, Ford Foundation, National Institute of Education, Erikson Educational Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and others.

She is the recipient of the Morton Prince Award, the Huang-Chan Memorial Lecturer from Hong Kong University, Cross Award from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and was named Regents Lecturer at UCLA. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex and she is a member of the International Academy of Sex Research, International Women's Forum, New York Women's Forum Inc., American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and Sigma Xi.