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]