Joanne Meyerowitz

Joanne Meyerowitz joined the Yale faculty in 2004 as Professor of American Studies and History.  She is the author of Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 (1988) and How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002), and the editor of Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (1994) and History and September 11th (2003). Before joining the faculty at Yale, she taught at Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati, and for five years she edited the Journal of American History, the leading scholarly journal in U.S. history. 

Recent publications include “‘How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives’: Sexuality, Race, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Social Constructionist Thought,” Journal of American History 96:4 (March 2010); “Transnational Sex and U.S. History,” American Historical Review 114:5 (December 2009); and “A History of ‘Gender,’” American Historical Review 113:5 (December, 2008).

Her research and teaching focus on twentieth-century U.S. history, women, gender, and sexuality.  She is co-director of the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities.