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