Name Joanne Meyerowitz | Role Historian | |
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Education Stanford University (1983) Books How Sex Changed, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada, Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award | ||
Joanne Meyerowitz is an American historian and author. She was a professor at Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati before becoming editor of the Journal of American History from 1999 to 2004. Following her tenure there, she accepted a position at Yale University, where she was subsequently appointed the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History. Her work has appeared in the American Historical Review, Gender & History, the Journal of Women's History, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Meyerowitz is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Stanford University. Her book How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States received the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award as part of the 2003 Stonewall Book Awards. She has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Social Science Research Council fellowship. She is a former trustee of the Kinsey Institute.