Susan Stryker

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Susan Stryker

Susan Stryker (born 1961 ) is an American social scientist, filmmaker, and transgender activist. She is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Arizona , where she heads the Institute for LGBT Studies. She is considered one of the leading scientists in the field of transgender studies.

Life

Susan O'Neal Stryker received her BA from the University of Oklahoma in 1983. She received her PhD in American history in 1992 from the University of California, Berkeley with a doctoral thesis Making Mormonism: A Critical and Historical Analysis of Cultural Formation and was subsequently a postdoc at Stanford University in sexuality studies from 1998 to 2000 . Her first professorship was at Indiana University .

In 1992 she co-founded the Transgender Nation activist group .

From 2011, she was a professor at the University of Arizona, to which she switched because it offered her the head of the Institute for LGBT Studies. When Stryker got an offer from a more prestigious university, the University of Arizona advertised to keep her and gave her the opportunity to expand transgender studies at the university. Since then, several positions have been created for this purpose and their initiative led to the world's first master's program in transgender studies. In 2016, she resigned as head of the Institute for LGBT Studies to work on a book project.

Together with Paisley Currah , she founded TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly in 2014 , the first social science journal within transgender studies.

Stryker is a transgender woman herself. She describes herself as a lesbian .

Awards

  • 2005 San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Awards for Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria
  • Lambda Literary Award 2006 for The Transgender Studies Reader
  • Ruth Benedict Book Prize 2013 for The Transgender Studies Reader 2

Works

  • Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area . 1996.
  • Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback . 2001.
  • The Transgender Studies Reader . 2006 (with Stephen Wittle ).
  • Transgender history . 2008.
  • The Transgender Studies Reader 2 . 2013.

Filmography

  • 2005: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (together with Victor Silverman )
  • 2009: Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
  • 2013: Christine in the Cutting Room

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susan Stryker Ph.D. In: The University of Arizona. Retrieved September 25, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c d Transgender Studies Today: An Interview with Susan Stryker. In: b2o. August 20, 2014, accessed September 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Susan Stryker Ph.D. In: Institute for LGBT Studies. Retrieved September 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Deborah Rudacille: The Riddle of Gender . 2009, p. 52 .
  5. ^ Susan Stryker is Stepping Down as Director of the UA Institute for LGBT Studies. In: The Range. April 27, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016 .
  6. ^ Carole-Anne Tyler: Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures . Ed .: George Haggerty, Bonnie Zimmerman. 2003, p. 1374 .
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SURNAME Stryker, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social scientist, filmmaker, and transgender activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961