Susan Stryker is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona, and is currently on leave while holding an appointment as Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College.
16 Facts About Susan Stryker
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Susan Stryker received a bachelor's degree in Letters from University of Oklahoma in 1983.
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Susan Stryker is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, and is the former director of the university's Institute for LGBT Studies.
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Susan Stryker has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Simon Fraser University.
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Susan Stryker is an openly lesbian trans woman who has produced a significant body of work about transgender and queer culture.
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Susan Stryker came out as transgender and began to transition shortly after earning her doctorate.
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In 2004, Susan Stryker was distinguished visiting faculty in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
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Susan Stryker was hired with tenure as Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University in 2009, and left to accept a position as Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona in 2011.
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In 2013, Susan Stryker established the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona.
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Susan Stryker focused on "hiring faculty of color", in her own words.
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Susan Stryker's first book, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, coauthored with Jim Van Buskirk, is an illustrated account of the evolution of LGBT culture in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Susan Stryker's following book, Transgender History, covers transvestism, transgender people, and transsexualism in the United States from the conclusion of World War II to the 2000s.
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Susan Stryker is working on a new book project, Cross-Dressing for Empire: Gender and Performance at the Bohemian Grove.
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Susan Stryker is featured in the documentary Diagnosing Difference and in the film Reel in the Closet, directed by Stu Maddux.
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In 2021, Susan Stryker appeared and served as a consulting producer on The Lady and the Dale, an HBO documentary series revolving around Elizabeth Carmichael, the founder of Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation.
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Susan Stryker appeared as herself in Pride, a 6-part documentary series focusing on LGBT history decade-by-decade, for FX.