Joanna Wuest (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University.
Wuest is a sociolegal scholar specializing in LGBTQ+ rights, religion, and health, whose research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the American Association of University Women, and the American Political Science Association.
She is 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 WNYC’s Radiolab. She is currently writing a book on how “dark money” and religious liberty legal organizations have shaped social welfare, civil rights, and health policy. Her popular writing has appeared in outlets including The Nation, Boston Review, and Dissent, and her academic work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Social Science & Medicine, Law & Social Inquiry, and other peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
Research Area: LGBTQ Rights
Read more from Joanna Wuest:
- Dissent: The Bad Science Behind Trans Medicine Bans
- The Nation: Banning Trans Health Care Puts Young People at Risk of Harm
- The Nation: Trans Medicine’s “Merchants of Doubt”
- Jacobin: Transgender Politics Didn’t Have to End Up Here
- LGBTQ Nation: Republicans Are Mostly United in Their Views on LGBTQ Rights. Democrats Are Not.
- Medium: LGBT Adults Remain Hopeful for the Future of LGBT People in the US
- Spotlight Analysis: Anti-Trans Attitudes in Political Context
