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Joanna Wuest is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University where she writes and teaches on sexuality and gender politics and law, health, and political economy. Previously, she held positions at Princeton University and Mount Holyoke College, and received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019. For the 2024-2025 academic year, she is a Public Fellow in LGBTQ Rights at the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
She 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. Her other academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Social Science & Medicine, Law & Social Inquiry, 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, 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 on the political economy of LGBTQ+ rights and health in the U.S. |
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