Joanne Meyerowitz

Joanne Meyerowitz is an American historian and author. She was a professor at Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati before becoming editor of the "Journal of American History" from 1999 to 2004. Following her tenure there, she accepted a position at Yale University, where she was subsequently appointed the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History. 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".
Meyerowitz is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Stanford University. 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. She has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Social Science Research Council fellowship. She is a former trustee of the Kinsey Institute.