Joanne Meyerowitz Explained
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)
Notes and References
- Web site: The Social Sciences Research Council Supports Sexuality Research. Moke. Susan. September 1997. Research & Creative Activity Magazine. 2014-01-21.
- Meyerowitz. Joanne. 2008. A History of "Gender". The American Historical Review. 113. 5 . 1356. 10.1086/ahr.113.5.1346. free.
- Web site: Joanne Meyerowitz. 2014. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2014-01-21.
- Web site: Joanne Meyerowitz Named to an Endowed Chair at Yale. Staff report. November 27, 2012. Women in Academia Report. 15. 2014-01-21.
- Web site: Department of History: Joanne Meyerowitz. 2014. Yale University. 2014-01-21.
- Web site: Stonewall Book Awards. American Library Association. 2004. 2014-01-21.
- Web site: Kudos: A sampling of good news from our Trustees and Fellows. National Humanities Center. Spring 2004. News of the National Humanities Center. 2014-01-21.
- Web site: Visiting Scholars. 2014. The Kinsey Institute. 2014-01-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140604160519/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/research/visitpast.html. 2014-06-04. dead.
- Web site: Faculty Co-Directors. 2014. Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities. 2014-01-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202120146/http://yrihs.yale.edu/directors. 2014-02-02. dead.