Joanne Meyerowitz

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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]

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