Susan Stryker (Ph.D., U.S. History, UC-Berkeley 1992) is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, where she directed the Institute for LGBT Studies, and currently holds a distinguished visiting appointment at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. She is former executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, and an Emmy Award-Winning filmmaker for Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (ITVS, 2005). Stryker is the author or editor of numerous single-author works and collections, including Transgender History (3rd. rev. ed, 2026); the multi-volume Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge, 2006, 2013, 2022); and the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke, 2024). She is also founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and a recipient of both the Kessler and Brudner prizes for life-time contributions to LGBTQ studies.