Professional Affiliation

Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University

Expert Bio

Joanne Meyerowitz is the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University.  She earned her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from Stanford University.  Her publications include How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002), the edited volume History and September 11th (2003), and more recently, “180 Op-Eds: Or How to Make the Present Historical,” Journal of American History (2020). She is a former editor of the Journal of American History and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.