Dr. Joanne Meyerowitz

Biography

Joanne Meyerowitz received her B.A. from the University of Chicago, followed by M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. She is the author of "Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930" and the editor of "June Cleaver: Women, Gender, and Postwar America, 1945-1960". Among her recent works is "War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit" (2021), which examines U.S. involvement in campaigns to end global poverty during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting an increasing focus on anti-poverty efforts directed at women as the deserving poor. Since joining the faculty at Yale in 2004, she has previously taught at the University of Cincinnati and Indiana University. Meyerowitz has edited the "Journal of American History", one of the leading scholarly journals in U.S. history, and has received fellowships from various prestigious institutions including the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her publications have won several awards, and she has been acknowledged for her teaching excellence. Currently, she serves as co-director of the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities, teaching courses on recent U.S. history, gender, and sexuality.

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