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Joanna Wuest is a political scientist and assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Stony Brook University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University and an assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. She received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Wuest is also the author of Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2023), which was featured on an episode of Radiolab and in the New York Times. The book was awarded honorable mentions for the Society for Social Studies of Science's 2024 Rachel Carson Prize and the American Political Science Association's 2025 Charles Taylor Book Award. Her other academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Social Science & Medicine, Law & Social Inquiry, the Boston University Law Review, and Signs. Much of this research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the American Association of University Women, the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), and the American Political Science Association. Her public writing has appeared in outlets including the Nation, Boston Review, Psyche, and Dissent. She is currently writing a book titled After Equality: American Capitalism and the Crisis of LGBTQ+ Liberalism with support from an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and a grant from the Louisville Institute. |
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