Joanne Meyerowitz

American historian and author

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

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