Susan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies.  She is the author, most recently, of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Seal Press 2017). She won a Emmy Award for the documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (Frameline/ITVS 2005), a Lambda Literary Award for the co-edited anthology The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge 2006), and the Ruth Benedict Book Prize for co-edited anthology The Transgender Studies Reader 2 (Routledge 2013).  She is founding co-editor of the academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Research interests include transgender/queer/feminist studies, LGBTQ history, film and media, built environments, somatechnics, and critical cultural theory.