Besides, I was fascinated with bodies.īut what I realized as soon as I got to college was that I hated my science classes. That would be a good job that I could get if I had a good education. For the longest time, I really thought I would go into medicine. I didn’t come from a family that had a lot of access to higher education, but I was groomed in this upwardly mobile way that encouraged me to go to college. I come from a working class, rural, southern white background. How did you decide to become a professor? As long as the whole social system doesn’t collapse, I’m as good as anybody could reasonably expect to be. I have a comfortable place to live, a salary for the time being, I eat well, I get enough sleep, I exercise regularly, I stay hydrated. You know, just the usual, right? But at an individual level, I live a relatively privileged life. The seas rise, the glaciers melt, the hurricanes rage and the deserts creep. The forests are burning here in California, the air has been unbreathable.
There’s the COVID pandemic, the public health crisis, the economic crisis, the crisis of democracy in the U.S. Not necessarily the same boat, but the same storm. In general? Same crises as everybody else. Prior to this, Professor Stryker was among the first openly transgender authors to ever publish an academic article in a peer-reviewed journal. She is co-founder of the TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, the first academic journal in the humanities and social sciences devoted to exploring transgender issues through an expressly interdisciplinary lens.
According to Inside Higher Ed, she is “a driving force” in expanding academic programs and faculty hiring for transgender studies.Īlso a longtime award-winning activist, author, and filmmaker, Professor Stryker is co-founder of direct-action activist group, Transgender Nation, and executive director of San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, 1999-2003.
Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, and Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership at Mills College. Before her appointment at Mills, Professor Stryker held appointments at Harvard, Yale, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Simon Fraser University. Susan Stryker, who received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her postdoctoral research at Stanford, is a pioneer in the field of transgender studies.
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