Joanne Meyerowitz

Joanne Meyerowitz is an American historian and author. She was a professor at Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati[1] before becoming editor of the Journal of American History from 1999 to 2004.[2][3] Following her tenure there, she accepted a position at Yale University, where she was subsequently appointed the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History.[4] 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.[5]

Meyerowitz is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Stanford University.[4] 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.[6] She has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship,[3] a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,[7] and a Social Science Research Council fellowship.[8] She is a former trustee of the Kinsey Institute.[9]

Bibliography

• Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1988)
• Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (1994) (as editor)
• How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002)
• History and September 11th (2003)

References

1. Moke, Susan (September 1997). "The Social Sciences Research Council Supports Sexuality Research". Research & Creative Activity Magazine. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
2. Meyerowitz, Joanne (2008). "A History of "Gender"". The American Historical Review. 113 (5): 1356. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.5.1346.
3. "Joanne Meyerowitz". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
4. Staff report (November 27, 2012). "Joanne Meyerowitz Named to an Endowed Chair at Yale". Women in Academia Report. p. 15. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
5. "Department of History: Joanne Meyerowitz". Yale University. 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
6. American Library Association (2004). "Stonewall Book Awards". Retrieved 2014-01-21.
7. National Humanities Center (Spring 2004). "Kudos: A sampling of good news from our Trustees and Fellows". News of the National Humanities Center. Archived from the original on 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
8. "Visiting Scholars". The Kinsey Institute. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
9. "Faculty Co-Directors". Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-01-21.