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. 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) References 21st-century American historians American LGBT writers Historians of LGBT topics Living people Indiana University faculty University of Cincinnati faculty American magazine editors Yale University faculty University of Chicago alumni Stanford University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American women historians 21st-century American women writers Women magazine editors Stonewall Book Award winners History journal editors