She came out as transgender and began to transition shortly after earning her doctorate. She is an openly lesbian trans woman who has produced a significant body of work about transgender and queer culture. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Simon Fraser University.

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. in United States History at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 the doctoral thesis she presented was Making Mormonism: A Critical and Historical Analysis of Cultural Formation. Stryker received a bachelor's degree in Letters from University of Oklahoma in 1983. Ī transgender woman, she is the author of several books about LGBT history and culture. Stryker serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Advisory Board of the Digital Transgender Archive.

She 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. Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961) is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Award University of California, Berkeley ( PhD)

Transgender History by Susan Stryker