New UA LGBT Institute Director Begins Post

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New UA LGBT Institute Director Begins Post

By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications, October 25, 2011

http://uanews.org/node/41875

Preeminent transgender theory and studies scholar Susan Stryker, UA's new director for the Institute for LGBT Studies, arrives with a fervent devotion to enhancing research around lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

Susan Stryker is deeply invested in expanding research related to lesbian, gay, bisexual and, especially, transgender communities. In fact, this has been her life's work.

Stryker, a preeminent scholar in the global world of transgender studies, is the new director of University of Arizona's Institute of LGBT Studies.