Research Interests
LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights, conservatism, critical and queer theory, law and political economy, science and technology studies.
Biography
Joanna Wuest is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Stony Brook, she served as the Fund for Reunion-Cotsen Fellow in LGBT Studies in the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and as Assistant Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College.
Wuest is a political scientist who researches sexuality and gender politics and law, ideology, and political economy. 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 Radiolab and received Honorable Mentions for the Society for Social Studies of Science’s 2024 Rachel Carson Prize and the American Political Science Association's Charles Taylor Book Award.
Her other academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Signs, Perspectives on Politics, Social Science & Medicine, Law & Social Inquiry, the Boston University Law Review, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies as well as various edited volumes. 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, and she has been a Public Fellow at the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).
She is currently writing a book titled After Equality: American Capitalism and the Crisis of LGBTQ Liberalism.
A full list of her work is available at https://www.joannawuest.com/
